Mark Monmonier bibliography

Mark Monmonier (born February 2, 1943) is a geographer with a long track record of publications that have been influential to the discipline. In 2023, the American Association of Geographers awarded Monmonier a lifetime achievement award, with prominent mention of his publication track record, specifically stating, "Monmonier’s works are timeless and have transformed how people see, analyze, and interact with maps."^[1] Monmonier stands out from other academics in that he published several books aimed at the general population.^[2] His most famous book, How to Lie with Maps has been referred to as the "bible for cartographers" by Steven Bernard of the Financial Times and ""the closest thing to a religious text we have in cartography" in Spatial Literacy in Public Health: Faculty-Librarian Teaching Collaborations.^[3][4] His publication Maximum-Difference Barriers : An Alternative Numerical Regiodization Method lead to what is now referred to as the "Monmonier Algorithm."^[5][6]

Books

Single author books

How to Lie with Maps 2nd edition

Title	Date	Publisher	Identifier	Citation(s)	Notes
Maps, Distortion, and Meaning	1977	Association of American Geographers	ISBN 0-89291-120-4
Computer-assisted Cartography: Principles and Prospects	1982	Prentice-Hall	ISBN 0-13-165308-3	[7][8][9][10]
Technological Transition in Cartography	1985	University of Wisconsin Press	ISBN 0-299-10070-7	[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
Maps with the News: the Development of American Journalistic Cartography	1989	University of Chicago Press	ISBN 0-226-53413-8	[19]
How to Lie with Maps	1991, 1996, 2018	University of Chicago Press	ISBN 978-0-226-43592-3	[20][21][22][23][24][25][3][26]
Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences	1993	University of Chicago Press	ISBN 0-226-53417-0	[27]
Drawing the Line: Tales of Maps and Cartocontroversy	1995	Henry Holt	ISBN 0-8050-2581-2	[28]
Cartographies of Danger: Mapping Hazards in America	1997	University of Chicago Press	ISBN 0-226-53419-7	[29]
Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather	1999	University of Chicago Press	ISBN 0-226-53422-7	[30]
Bushmanders & Bullwinkles: How Politicians Manipulate Electronic Maps and Census Data to Win Elections	2001	University of Chicago Press	ISBN 0-226-53424-3	[31]
Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy	2002	University of Chicago Press	ISBN 0-226-53427-8	[32][31][33]
Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: a Social History of the Mercator Projection	2004	University of Chicago Press	ISBN 0-226-53431-6	[34][35][36]
From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame	2006	University of Chicago Press	ISBN 0-226-53465-0	[30]
Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change	2008	University of Chicago Press	ISBN 0-226-53403-0	[37][38]
No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control	2010	University of Chicago Press	ISBN 978-0-226-53467-1	[39][40][41]
Lake Effect: Tales of Large Lakes, Arctic Winds, and Recurrent Snows	2012	Syracuse University Press	ISBN 978-0-8156-1004-5	[42][43][44]
Adventures in Academic Cartography: A Memoir	2014, 2016	Syracuse, NY: Bar Scale Press	ISBN 9781523254316	[30]	[Note 1]
Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History	2017	Palgrave Macmillan	ISBN 978-3-319-51039-2	[45]
Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography	2019	Esri Press,	ISBN 978-1-58948-559-4	[46][47][48]
Clock and Compass: How John Byron Plato Gave Farmers a Real Address	2022	University Of Iowa Press	ISBN 978-1609388218	[2][49]

Co-authored books and edited volumes

Title	Co-author(s)	Date	Publisher	Identifier	Citation(s)	Notes
The Study of Population: Elements, Patterns, Processes	George A. Schnell	1983	Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co	ISBN 0-675-20046-6
The History of Cartography: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies	George A. Schnell	1983	Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co	ISBN 0-675-20046-6
Map Appreciation	George A. Schnell	1988	Prentice-Hall	ISBN 0-13-556052-7
Volume Six of the History of Cartography:Cartography in the Twentieth Century		2015	University of Chicago Press	ISBN 9780226534695		[Note 2]
A Directory of Cartographic Inventors: Clever People Awarded a US Patent for a Map-Related Device or Method	Adrienne Atterberry, Kayla Fermin, Gabrielle Marzolf, Madeline Hamlin	2018	Bar Scale Press	ISBN 978-1-985690-22-6	[50]

Book chapters and encyclopedia entries

Chapter Title	Book title	Co-author(s)	Date	Publisher	Identifier	Citation(s)	Notes
The Three R's of Gis-Based Site Selection: Representation, Resistance, and Ridicule	Policy issues in modern Cartography		1998	Elsevier	doi:10.1016/S1363-0814(98)80014-2
Thematic Maps in Geography	International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences		2001	Elsevier	doi:10.1016/B0-08-043076-7/02533-X
Chapter 6 - The Internet, Cartographic Surveillance, and Locational Privacy	Maps and the Internet		2003	Wiley-Blackwell	doi:10.1016/B978-008044201-3/50008-6
Chapter 26 Cartography	Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century	Robert B McMaster	2004	Oxford University Press	doi:10.1093/oso/9780198233923.003.0038
Cartography	The Social Science Encyclopedia		2004	Taylor and Francis	ISBN 1134450842
Chapter 2 POMP and circumstance: Plain old map products in a cybercartographic world	Modern Cartography Series		2005	Elsevier	doi:10.1016/S1363-0814(05)80005-X
Geolocation and Locational Privacy: The “Inside” Story on Geospatial Tracking	Privacy and Technologies of Identity		2006	Springer	doi:10.1007/0-387-28222-X_5
High-Resolution Coastal Elevation Data: The Key to Planning for Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise	Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security		2008	Springer	doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8507-9_11
Web Cartography and the Dissemination of Cartographic Information about Coastal Inundation and Sea Level Rise	International perspectives on maps and the Internet		2008	Springer	doi:10.1007/978-3-540-72029-4_4
A Century of Cartographic Change	The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation		2010	Wiley-Blackwell	ISBN 978-0470742839		[Note 3]
Strategies for the Visualization of Geographic Time-Series Data	The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation		2010	Wiley-Blackwell	ISBN 978-0470742839		[Note 4]
Strategies for the Visualization of Geographic Time-Series Data	Classics in Cartography: Reflections on Influential Articles from Cartographica		2011	John Wiley & Sons, Ltd	doi:10.1002/9780470669488.ch6		[Note 4]
Reflection Essay: Strategies for the Visualization of Geographic Time-Series Data	Classics in Cartography: Reflections on Influential Articles from Cartographica		2011	John Wiley & Sons, Ltd	doi:10.1002/9780470669488.ch7
Maps that Say "No!": The Rise of Prohibitive Cartography	Geography and Social Justice in the Classroom		2013	Routledge	ISBN 9781138108707
Innovation and Inertia in Atmospheric and Census Cartography in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America	Visible Numbers		2016	Routledge	ISBN 9781315084275
Cartography	International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology		2017	John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.	doi:10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0359
Hunches and hopes	The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography		2017	Routledge	ISBN 9781315736822
‘Change-of-State’ in the History of Cartography	Motion in Maps, Maps in Motion		2020	Amsterdam University Press	doi:10.1515/9789048542956-010

Peer reviewed Articles

Single author articles

Title	Date	Journal/Publication	Identifier	Citation(s)	Notes
The production of shaded maps on the digital computer	1965	The Professional Geographer	doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.1965.013_r.x
Computer mapping with the digital increment plotter	1968	The Professional Geographer	doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.1968.00408.x
Computer mapping with the digital increment plotter	1968	The Professional Geographer	doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.1968.00408.x
Shaded area symbols for the digital increment plotter	1970	Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie	doi:10.1111/j.1467-9663.1970.tb00487.x
A Spatially-Controlled Principal Components Analysis	1970	Geographical Analysis	doi:10.1111/j.1538-4632.1970.tb00156.x
Digitized map measurement and correlation applied to an example in crop ecology	1971	Geographical Review	doi:10.2307/213367
Upland adjustment to regional drainage in central Pennsylvania: an application of trend surface analysis	1971	Journal of Geography	doi:10.1080/00221347108981657
Comparison of quantitative regionalization methods	1972	Geographical Review
Flow‐linkage construction for spatial trend recognition	1972	Geographical Analysis	doi:10.1111/j.1538-4632.1972.tb00484.x
Maximum-Difference Barriers : An Alternative Numerical Regiodization Method*	1973	Geographical Analysis	doi:10.1111/j.1538-4632.1973.tb01011.x	[6][5]	[Note 5]
Measures of Pattern Complexity for Choroplethic Maps	1974	The American Cartographer	doi:10.1559/152304074784107728
Maximizing the information content of maps of spatial-temporal disease distributions	1974	Cartographica	doi:10.3138/R304-4605-34XX-5W00
Internally-stored Scan-lines for Line-printer Mapping	1975	The American Cartographer	doi:10.1559/152304075784313232
Class Intervals to Enhance the Visual Correlation of Choroplethic Maps	1975	Cartographica	doi:10.3138/B588-2228-2H14-U7X5
Jacques M. May	1976	The Professional Geographer	doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.1976.00093.x
Modifying objective functions and constraints for maximizing visual correspondence of choroplethic maps	1976	Cartographica	doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.1976.00093.x
Regression-based Scaling to Facilitate the Cross-correlation of Graduated Circle Maps	1977	The Cartographic Journal	doi:10.1179/caj.1977.14.2.89
The significance and symbolization of trend direction	1977	The Cartographic Journal	doi:10.3138/5634-37V5-45KX-G687
Viewing Azimuth and Map Clarity	1978	Annals of the American Association of Geographers	doi:10.3138/5634-37V5-45KX-G687
Estimates of trend direction/ vagueness and bias in map reading	1979	Canadian Cartography
Modelling the Effect of Reproduction Noise on Continuous-tone Area Symbols	1979	The Cartographic Journal	doi:10.1179/caj.1979.16.2.86
The hopeless pursuit of purification in cartographic communication: A comparison of graphic-arts and perceptual distortions of graytone symbols	1980	Cartographica	doi:10.3138/YN3W-XL03-6218-0558
Automated Techniques in Support of Planning for the National Atlas	1981	The American Cartographer	doi:10.1559/152304081784447390
Trends in atlas development	1981	Cartographica	doi:10.3138/1572-LG43-R75T-5455
Street Maps And Private-Sector Map Making/A Case Study Of Two Firms	1981	Cartographica	doi:10.3138/U644-7V56-5731-8443
Map-text coordination in geographic writing	1981	The Professional Geographer	doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.1981.00406.x
Flat Laxity, Optimization, And Rounding In The Selection Of Class Intervals	1982	Cartographica	doi:10.3138/E553-4G4L-28P1-8741
Cartography and Mapping	1982	Progress in Human Geography	doi:10.3138/E553-4G4L-28P1-8741
Cartography, geographic information, and public policy	1982	Progress in Human Geography	doi:10.1080/03098268208708847
Comments on “Automated Geography”	1983	Progress in Human Geography	doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.1983.00346.x
Cartography, mapping and geographic information	1983	Progress in Human Geography	doi:10.1177/03091325830070030
Raster-mode area generalization for land use and land cover maps	1983	Cartographica	doi:10.3138/X572-0327-4670-1573
More on mapping	1984	Journal of Geography in Higher Education	doi:10.1080/03098268408708903
Geographic Information and Cartography	1984	Progress in Human Geography	doi:10.1177/030913258400800303
Former Editor Protests Censorship	1985	The American Cartographer	doi:10.1177/030913258400800303
The rise of map use by elite newspapers in England, Canada, and the United States	1987	Imago Mundi	doi:10.1080/03085698608592604
Displacement in vector-and raster-mode graphics	1987	Cartographica	doi:10.3138/FW8R-2122-PT42-53M2
Telegraphy, iconography, and the weather map: Cartographic weather reports by the United States Weather Bureau, 1870–1935	1988	Imago Mundi	doi:10.1080/03085698808592636
Geographic brushing: Enhancing exploratory analysis of the scatterplot matrix	1989	Geographical analysis	doi:10.1111/j.1538-4632.1989.tb00879.x
Regionalizing and matching features for interpolated displacement in the automated generalization of digital cartographic databases	1989	Cartographica	doi:10.3138/5T71-3231-7N24-P0J8
Interpolated Generalization: Cartographic Theory For Expert guided Feature Displacement	1989	Cartographica	doi:10.3138/V700-H680-077Q-6503
Strategies for the visualization of geographic time-series data	1990	Cartographica	doi:10.3138/U558-H737-6577-8U31
Graphically encoded knowledge bases for expert-guided feature generalization in cartographic display systems	1990	International Journal of Expert Systems
Cartography at Syracuse University	1991	Cartography and Geographic Information Systems	doi:10.1559/152304091783786943
Ethics and map design: Six strategies for confronting the traditional one-map solution	1991	Cartographic Perspectives	doi:10.14714/CP10.1052	[51]
Authoring Graphic Scripts: Experiences and Principles	1992	Cartography and Geographic Information Systems	doi:10.1559/152304092783721240
Summary Graphics for Integrated Visualization in Dynamic Cartography	1992	Cartography and Geographic Information Systems	doi:10.1559/152304092783786681
Exploring the Quality of Enumeration-Area Data with Graphic Scripts	1993	Cartographica	doi:10.3138/K633-0844-JX85-8PN1
What a Friend We Have in GIS	1993	The Professional Geographer	doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.1993.00448.x
The Rise of the National Atlas	1994	Cartographica	doi:10.3138/T3NN-QL75-753L-25G7
Temporal Generalization for Dynamic Maps	1996	Cartography and Geographic Information Systems	doi:10.1559/152304096782562118
Geography And Cartography In The Twenty-First Century	1996	Cartographic Perspectives	doi:10.14714/CP23.773
Civil War Newspaper Maps: A Historical Atlas	1996	Imago Mundi	doi:10.14714/CP23.773
Anatomy of a Cartographic Surrogate: the Portrayal of Complex Electoral Boundaries in the Congressional District Atlas	2000	Cartographic Perspectives	doi:10.14714/CP35.837
Webcams, Interactive Index Maps, and Our Brave New World’s Brave New Globe	2000	Cartographic Perspectives	doi:10.14714/CP37.809
Aerial Photography at the Agricultural Adjustment Administration: Acreage Controls, Conservation Benefits, and Overhead Surveillance in the 1930s	2002	Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing
Cartography: distortions, world-views and creative solutions	2005	Progress in Human Geography	doi:10.1191/0309132505ph540pr
Lying with Maps	2005	Statistical Science	doi:10.1214/088342305000000241
Critic, Deconstruct Thyself: A Rejoinder to Koch's Nonsense of Snow	2005	Cartographica	doi:10.3138/N2Q6-0582-0254-7157
Cartography: uncertainty, interventions, and dynamic display	2006	Progress in Human Geography	doi:10.1191/0309132506ph612pr
Cartography: the multidisciplinary pluralism of cartographic art, geospatial technology, and empirical scholarship	2007	Progress in Human Geography	doi:10.1177/0309132507077089
History, Jargon, Privacy and Multiple Vulnerabilities	2013	The Cartographic Journal	doi:10.1179/0008704113Z.00000000084
Twentieth-Century Themes for the Progressive Map Collection	2015	Cartographic Perspectives	doi:10.14714/CP81.1334
Motives for Patenting a Map Projection: Did Fame Trump Fortune?	2018	The Cartographic Journal	doi:10.1080/00087041.2018.1448563
Waldo R. Tobler (1930–2018)	2019	Imago Mundi	doi:10.1080/03085694.2019.1529916

Co-authored articles

Title	Co-author(s)	Date	Journal/Publication	Identifier	Citation(s)	Notes
Improving the interpretation of geographical canonical correlation models	Fay Evanko Finn	1973	The Professional Geographer	doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.1973.00140.x
Interstate Migration of Physicians in the United States: the Case of 1955–1959 Graduates	George A Schnell	1976	The Professional Geographer	doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.1976.00029.x
U.S. Population Change 1960–70: Simplification, Meaning, And Mapping	George A Schnell	1976	Journal of Geography	doi:10.1080/00221347608980364
Maps in Minds: Reflections on Cognitive Mapping	Roger M. Downs, David Stea	1976	Geographical Review	doi:10.2307/215060
The mortality-fertility ratio: a useful measure for describing demographic change in the United States, 1940-1975.	George A Schnell	1979	Geographical survey	doi:10.2307/215060
Focus Groups for Design Improvement in Dynamic Cartography	Myke Gluck	1979	Cartography and Geographic Information Systems	doi:10.1559/152304094782563948
GIS in New York State county emergency management offices: User assessment	Alberto Giordano	1998	Applied Geographic Studies	doi:10.1002/(SICI)1520-6319(199822)2:2<95::AID-AGS2>3.0.CO;2-M
The Exploratory Essays Initiative: Background and Overview	David Woodward	2002	Cartography and Geographic Information Science	doi:10.1559/152304002782008477

Book reviews

Title	Date	Journal/Publication	Identifier	Citation(s)	Notes
Review work: Medical Geography: Techniques and Field Studies	1972	Annals of the American Association of Geographers	doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1973.tb00923.x
Reviewed Work: Graphic Communication and Design in Contemporary Cartography D. R. Fraser Taylor	1984	Geographical Review	doi:10.2307/214769
Reviewed Work: Mapping Information: The Graphic Display of Quantitative Information Howard T. Fisher	1984	Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Reviewed Works: Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps by Jacques Bertin, William J. Berg; The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Edward R. Tufte	1985	Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Education and training in contemporary cartography: A review	1985	Journal of Geography in Higher Education	doi:10.1080/03098268708709010
Reviewed Work: Monarchs, Ministers, and Maps: The Emergence of Cartography as a Tool of Government in Early Modern Europe David Buisseret	1993	Annals of the American Association of Geographers	doi:10.1080/03098268708709010
Reviewed Work: Picturing Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Problems concerning the Use of Art in Science Brian S. Baigrie	1997	Geographical Review	doi:10.2307/216046
Book Review: Framework for the world.	1999	Progress in Human Geography	doi:10.1191/030913299672250859
Reviewed Work: South Carolina Atlas of Environmental Risks and Hazards by Susan L. Cutter, Deborah S. K. Thomas, Micah E. Cutler, Jerry T. Mitchell, Michael S. Scott	2000	Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Review: The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography	2001	Cartographic Perspectives	doi:10.14714/CP40.598
A Review of “Putting “America” on the Map: The Story of the Most Important Graphic Document in the History of the United States”	2009	The Professional Geographer	doi:10.1080/00330120902743621
On the Edge: Mapping North America’s Coasts by Roger M. McCoy (review)	2009	Cartographica
Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps	2017	The AAG Review of Books	doi:10.1080/2325548X.2017.1257267
Dark spaces on the map	2021	Technology Review
Review of Emma Willard: Maps of History	2023	Cartographic Perspectives	doi:10.14714/CP101.1829

See also

• Cynthia Brewer – American geographer
• Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography – Series of geography texts, 1975–1996
• Geographia Generalis – Geography textbook by Bernhardus Varenius
• Geographic information science – Scientific discipline
• George F. Jenks – American geographer and cartographer
• Mei-Po Kwan – GeographerPages displaying short descriptions with no spaces
• Scientific Geography Series – Series of geography publications, 1985–1988
• Technical geography – Study of spatial information
• Waldo Tobler bibliography – Geographer Waldo Tobler's publications

Notes

1. Monmonier's autobiography.
2. Monmonier served as the chief editor, and wrote the Preface and Introduction
3. Exerpt from Monmonier's book Technological Transitions in Cartogrpahy
4. Republished Monmonier's 1990 paper from Cartographica
5. Journal where Monmonier first published his "Maximum-difference boundary" algorithm that would later be called the "Monmonier Algorithm"