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Calafia the Journal of the California Map Society March 2020 Calafia The Journal of the California Map Society March 2020 Mars false color topograph- ic image, featuring Tharsis topographic rise (red & Volume 2020, issue 1 Calafia Journal white areas), Page NASA/JPL 1 Page 2 Calafia Journal Volume 2020, issue 1 Calafia the Journal of the California Map Society Volume 2020, Issue 1 — March 2020 www.californiamapsociety.org Spring meeting, April 25, 2020 Contents SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY—MAIN LIBRARY April 2020 Meeting 3 N37° 46' 45", W122° 24' 59" ///print.hopes.cared* President’s Letter 4 Saturday, April 25, 2020, 9:15 am to 5:00 pm Editor’s Note 5 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 CMS Education Fund 5 Our 87th Regional Meeting! Meeting Program 6 Library Map, Directions 7 ur Spring Meeting will include a wide array of topics from the 14th to the 21st Centuries Fall Meeting Recap 8 O and will be held at The San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street, My Favorite Map 11 San Francisco, CA. There will be no reg- Carto-Quiz 13 istration fee. Meet Our Member 14 The morning will begin at 9:15 am with Apps for Maps 15 Morning Hospitality (coffee, tea, and Mapping Asteroids 17 pastries) in the Latino/Hispanic Room, Moon Mapping /Naming 18 first floor. (The hospitality is for CMS Book Review 24 Members only.) Historic Mars Mapping 25 Wayfinding on Mars 29 At 10:00 am, we will convene in the Ko- Rogue Photo of Earth 33 ret Auditorium for welcomes by Presi- Celestial Map Primer 36 dent Jon Jablonski, Vice President Ron Teaching Astronomy 40 Gibbs, and City Archivist, San Francisco LOC Treasures 43 Public Library, Susan Goldstein. Rumsey Map Ctr Events 47 See page 7 for Facility Map & Directions Our first speaker will be Courtney Spikes Bay Area Map Group 48 and Directions of Los Angeles, CA. Her topic will be: Mapping Paris After Haussmann. In 1860, Emperor SF Map Fair 50 Napoleon III unilaterally altered the map of Paris—doubling its size and quadrupling the Student Paper 53 population. City planner Baron Haussmann, deep into his 20-year renovation project, recon- Mapping Here/There 63 figured the map of France’s capital into the ‘city of light’ we celebrate today. Courtney earned Gerald Greenberg 66 her degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and UCLA. She lectures at Loyola Mary- CMS Information 67 mount University and serves as a historical consultant for television and feature films. Our second speaker will be Susan Schulten of Denver, CO. Susan will speak on: How Maps Made America. Whether handmaidens of diplomacy, instruments of social reform, or even advertisements, maps have both reflected and shaped American history. Here Susan uses maps to narrate some essential maps that mattered from the voyages of discovery to the digi- Calafia : The Journal of the tal age. A professor of history at the University of Denver, Susan authored three books on California Map Society cartography including A History of America in 100 Maps (2018) and Mapping the Nation: Juliet Rothman, Editor History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America (2012), which received the Norris Fred DeJarlais, Publisher Hundley Prize from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Society. She has The journal is published bi- spoken in the Bay Area on other recent occasions. annually by the Society. We ‘ll have a break from 11:45-1:00pm to have lunch on your own at one of the nearby res- * www.what3words.com taurants. A list of nearby restaurants is provided on page 7 of the journal. Volume 2020, issue 1 Calafia Journal Page 3 Our first speaker after lunch will be Richard Breiman of Ala- mo, CA. Rich will speak on: The Remarkable Life and Legend- President’s ary Voyages and Discoveries of Captain James Cook, the Great- Letter est Explorer of the 18th Century. Historical maps, engravings, and journal excerpts will illustrate the presentation. Rich is a Jon Jablonski, retired University of California San Francisco Professor of CMS President Radiology and an avid life-long collector, most recently of an- tiquarian maps, prints and books, including the British Admi- Dear Society members and friends: ralty’s official authorized journals, maps and engravings from Captain Cook’s expeditions. pring greetings from the board and from myself personally. S I am writing on a Sunday afternoon after noticing our first Next, Jonathan Van Coops of San Francisco, CA will pre- iris of the spring here on the Central Coast. That got me to sent a personal story, entitled Revolution, Maps, and Family: thinking about the wide range of landscapes in the state, and El Rondin-Campaigns of Toribo Ortega and Jose de la Cruz all the different ways we describe Northern versus Southern Sanchez during the Orozco Rebellion of 1912. Jonathan is the California. I think we will visit this topic at our fall meeting in great-grandson of Esteban Luján, who authored “El Rondín” the South. during the Mexican Revolution. Using several beautiful his- torical maps, he will illustrate the geographic context and con- First, though, we have our April 25th spring meeting at the ditions that led to Orozco’s rebellion. As a geographer and San Francisco Public Library—the Main Library. This is an- cartographer, Jonathan enjoyed a 40-year career leading the other meeting that we are thrilled to host with no cost to California Coastal Commission’s Mapping and GIS members or the general public. The last time we met at SFPL, (Geographic Information System) Program before retiring in more than 125 people attended. Others poked their heads in 2015. throughout the day—either for individual talks, or just curi- ously passing through. I wouldn't be surprised if we reached At 2:30-3:00pm, we’ll have a short break in the Latino/ more than 200 people that day. I am very much looking for- Hispanic Room, first floor, again for Members only. ward to a repeat! See inside this issue for more details. Then, Tom Paper and Jim Schein of San Francisco, CA Of course, next year, we will return to the Rumsey Center at will make an innovative presentation, entitled: A Pop-up Ex- Stanford University. Over the past five years, the Rumsey Cen- hibit on the Cartographic History of San Francisco. Covering ter and we have partnered using money outside of membership 1507 to the present day, this exhibit reveals the key maps that dues. These funds were raised from members who have the abil- have uncovered and articulated what is San Francisco. Tom is ity and desire to donate above their membership. These funds a Managing Partner of Webster Pacific, a location analytics enable our annual author talk and student paper competition consulting firm, and Jim is the owner of Schein & Schein, a dues-- both of which are presented in the South—as well as the local business specializing in vintage maps and prints. Northern meeting every-other-year. The last lecture will also be a novel one as Juliet Rothman of The board unanimously voted to start fundraising for another San Francisco and Fred DeJarlais of Capitola, CA will pre- five-year cycle of programming. We have set the goal at sent Calafia: Bringing a Professional Cartographic Journal to $25,000. As a board officer, I know there were gifts of multiple Life. As a member of professional journal Advisory Boards, -thousands-of-dollars. As a state employee, I well know that and as a long-time President and leader of the California Map most of us in California don't have that much in our annual Society, respectively, Juliet and Fred, editor and publisher of giving budgets. If you are a person of such means, I will chal- our journal, Calafia, will discuss the arduous, but rewarding lenge you to donate the entire $25k and then, in turn, chal- path of transforming the Society’s newsletter into a publica- lenge the board to fundraise for an additional set of activities. tion that reflects the multifaceted interests of our members If you donated the first time around, please consider donating and attracts the attention of the wider cartographic world. at a higher level, and make the same challenge to the board. And if you are like me and like what we've been doing over the The program will conclude with a short Business Meeting, past few years, kick in whatever you feel comfortable with. I beginning at 4:30pm, in the Koret Auditorium. don't care if it's five or five hundred dollars, but also challenge our board to do more. Finally, please consider adding a dona- tion of some of your time and energy in the coming year. Page 4 Calafia Journal Volume 2020, issue 1 Editor’s Note CMS EDUCATION FUND The California Map Society Education Fund was established Our Spring issue’s theme is the mapping of space, chosen in 2014 by the Society to support scholarly activities around in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon the state. During the first five years, we sponsored an annual landing, and we include a number of articles on this fasci- lecture by a noted author or other expert in the field of cartog- nating subject in our Journal. Our own Nick Kanas, raphy, as well as an annual student paper competition. Lectures whose special interest is space mapping, shares an are held at the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford Univer- “Historical Primer” on celestial maps, Robert Garfinkle, sity, which co-sponsors the program, and one or more venues a scholar of the history of astronomy, takes us on a 400- in Southern California.
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