Unit 1: Geography - Its Nature and Perspectives

Art and science of mapmaking

• Cartography
• Mapography
• Ideolography
• Geography
• Locationography

He calculated the circumference of the earth

• Eratosthenes
• Aristotle
• Ptolemy
• Strabo
• Kant

Characteristics of relative location

• Description of something in relation to other things
• Connectivity of locations
• Accessibility between interactions of locations
• Use of latitude and longitude
• Includes site

Characteristics of absolute location

• Use of latitude and longitude
• Prime meridian, International Dateline
• Equator and Tropics
• Includes site
• Relationship between places

Site -

• Specific human and physical characteristics of a location
• Characteristics at the immediate location; man-made
• Location of a place relative to surroundings and other places
• Perceiving characteristics of places in different ways

Situation -

• Specific human and physical characteristics of a location
• Characteristics at the immediate location; man-made
• Location of a place relative to surroundings and other places
• Perceiving characteristics of places in different ways

Definition of sense of place

• Specific human and physical characteristics of a location
• Characteristics at the immediate location; man-made
• Location of a place relative to surroundings and other places
• Perceiving characteristics of places in different ways

Study of place names; Affected by characteristics of location

• Toponym
• Topography
• Technography
• Transhumance

Everything is related to everything else but near things are more related than distant things

• Tobler's First Law of Geography
• Kant's Third Law of Geography
• Wallerstein's World systems Theory
• Mercator's Laws of Mapmaking
• Von Thünen's Laws of Location

The inverse relationship between distance and connection (cultural and spatial)

• Distance Decay
• Friction of Distance
• Space-time connectivity
• Place-space accessibility
• World Systems Theory