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. 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.[2] His publication Maximum-Difference Barriers : An Alternative Numerical Regiodization Method lead to what is now referred to as the "Monmonier Algorithm."
| Title | Date | Publisher | Identifier | Citation(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maps, Distortion, and Meaning | 1977 | Association of American Geographers | |||
| Computer-assisted Cartography: Principles and Prospects | 1982 | Prentice-Hall | [3] [4] [5] | ||
| Technological Transition in Cartography | 1985 | University of Wisconsin Press | [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] | ||
| Maps with the News: the Development of American Journalistic Cartography | 1989 | University of Chicago Press | [15] | ||
| How to Lie with Maps | 1991, 1996, 2018 | University of Chicago Press | [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] | ||
| Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences | 1993 | University of Chicago Press | [24] | ||
| Drawing the Line: Tales of Maps and Cartocontroversy | 1995 | Henry Holt | [25] | ||
| Cartographies of Danger: Mapping Hazards in America | 1997 | University of Chicago Press | [26] | ||
| Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather | 1999 | University of Chicago Press | |||
| Bushmanders & Bullwinkles: How Politicians Manipulate Electronic Maps and Census Data to Win Elections | 2001 | University of Chicago Press | [27] | ||
| Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy | 2002 | University of Chicago Press | [28] | ||
| Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: a Social History of the Mercator Projection | 2004 | University of Chicago Press | [29] [30] [31] | ||
| From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame | 2006 | University of Chicago Press | |||
| Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change | 2008 | University of Chicago Press | [32] [33] | ||
| No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control | 2010 | University of Chicago Press | [34] [35] [36] | ||
| Lake Effect: Tales of Large Lakes, Arctic Winds, and Recurrent Snows | 2012 | Syracuse University Press | [37] [38] [39] | ||
| Adventures in Academic Cartography: A Memoir | 2014, 2016 | Syracuse, NY: Bar Scale Press | [40] | ||
| Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History | 2017 | Palgrave Macmillan | [41] | ||
| Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography | 2019 | Esri Press, | [42] [43] [44] | ||
| Clock and Compass: How John Byron Plato Gave Farmers a Real Address | 2022 | University Of Iowa Press | [45] [46] | ||
| 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 | |||
| The History of Cartography: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies | George A. Schnell | 1983 | Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co | |||
| Map Appreciation | George A. Schnell | 1988 | Prentice-Hall | |||
| Volume Six of the History of Cartography:Cartography in the Twentieth Century | 2015 | University of Chicago Press | ||||
| 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 | [47] | ||
| 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 | ||||
| Thematic Maps in Geography | International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences | 2001 | Elsevier | ||||
| Chapter 6 - The Internet, Cartographic Surveillance, and Locational Privacy | Maps and the Internet | 2003 | Wiley-Blackwell | ||||
| Chapter 26 Cartography | Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century | Robert B McMaster | 2004 | Oxford University Press | |||
| Cartography | The Social Science Encyclopedia | 2004 | Taylor and Francis | ||||
| Chapter 2 POMP and circumstance: Plain old map products in a cybercartographic world | Modern Cartography Series | 2005 | Elsevier | ||||
| Geolocation and Locational Privacy: The “Inside” Story on Geospatial Tracking | Privacy and Technologies of Identity | 2006 | Springer | ||||
| High-Resolution Coastal Elevation Data: The Key to Planning for Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise | Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security | 2008 | Springer | ||||
| Web Cartography and the Dissemination of Cartographic Information about Coastal Inundation and Sea Level Rise | International perspectives on maps and the Internet | 2008 | Springer | ||||
| A Century of Cartographic Change | The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation | 2010 | Wiley-Blackwell | ||||
| Strategies for the Visualization of Geographic Time-Series Data | The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation | 2010 | Wiley-Blackwell | ||||
| Strategies for the Visualization of Geographic Time-Series Data | Classics in Cartography: Reflections on Influential Articles from Cartographica | 2011 | John Wiley & Sons, Ltd | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Maps that Say "No!": The Rise of Prohibitive Cartography | Geography and Social Justice in the Classroom | 2013 | Routledge | ||||
| Innovation and Inertia in Atmospheric and Census Cartography in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America | Visible Numbers | 2016 | Routledge | ||||
| Cartography | International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology | 2017 | John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. | ||||
| Hunches and hopes | The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography | 2017 | Routledge | ||||
| ‘Change-of-State’ in the History of Cartography | Motion in Maps, Maps in Motion | 2020 | Amsterdam University Press | ||||
| Title | Date | Journal/Publication | Identifier | Citation(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The production of shaded maps on the digital computer | 1965 | The Professional Geographer | |||
| Computer mapping with the digital increment plotter | 1968 | The Professional Geographer | |||
| Computer mapping with the digital increment plotter | 1968 | The Professional Geographer | |||
| Shaded area symbols for the digital increment plotter | 1970 | Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie | |||
| A Spatially-Controlled Principal Components Analysis | 1970 | Geographical Analysis | |||
| Digitized map measurement and correlation applied to an example in crop ecology | 1971 | Geographical Review | |||
| Upland adjustment to regional drainage in central Pennsylvania: an application of trend surface analysis | 1971 | Journal of Geography | |||
| Comparison of quantitative regionalization methods | 1972 | Geographical Review | |||
| Flow‐linkage construction for spatial trend recognition | 1972 | Geographical Analysis | |||
| Maximum-Difference Barriers : An Alternative Numerical Regiodization Method* | 1973 | Geographical Analysis | [48] [49] | ||
| Measures of Pattern Complexity for Choroplethic Maps | 1974 | The American Cartographer | |||
| Maximizing the information content of maps of spatial-temporal disease distributions | 1974 | Cartographica | |||
| Internally-stored Scan-lines for Line-printer Mapping | 1975 | The American Cartographer | |||
| Class Intervals to Enhance the Visual Correlation of Choroplethic Maps | 1975 | Cartographica | |||
| Jacques M. May | 1976 | The Professional Geographer | |||
| Modifying objective functions and constraints for maximizing visual correspondence of choroplethic maps | 1976 | Cartographica | |||
| Regression-based Scaling to Facilitate the Cross-correlation of Graduated Circle Maps | 1977 | The Cartographic Journal | |||
| The significance and symbolization of trend direction | 1977 | The Cartographic Journal | |||
| Viewing Azimuth and Map Clarity | 1978 | Annals of the Association of American Geographers | |||
| 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 | |||
| The hopeless pursuit of purification in cartographic communication: A comparison of graphic-arts and perceptual distortions of graytone symbols | 1980 | Cartographica | |||
| Automated Techniques in Support of Planning for the National Atlas | 1981 | The American Cartographer | |||
| Trends in atlas development | 1981 | Cartographica | |||
| Street Maps And Private-Sector Map Making/A Case Study Of Two Firms | 1981 | Cartographica | |||
| Map-text coordination in geographic writing | 1981 | The Professional Geographer | |||
| Flat Laxity, Optimization, And Rounding In The Selection Of Class Intervals | 1982 | Cartographica | |||
| Cartography and Mapping | 1982 | Progress in Human Geography | |||
| Cartography, geographic information, and public policy | 1982 | Progress in Human Geography | |||
| Comments on “Automated Geography” | 1983 | Progress in Human Geography | |||
| Cartography, mapping and geographic information | 1983 | Progress in Human Geography | |||
| Raster-mode area generalization for land use and land cover maps | 1983 | Cartographica | |||
| More on mapping | 1984 | Journal of Geography in Higher Education | |||
| Geographic Information and Cartography | 1984 | Progress in Human Geography | |||
| Former Editor Protests Censorship | 1985 | The American Cartographer | |||
| The rise of map use by elite newspapers in England, Canada, and the United States | 1987 | Imago Mundi | |||
| Displacement in vector-and raster-mode graphics | 1987 | Cartographica | |||
| Telegraphy, iconography, and the weather map: Cartographic weather reports by the United States Weather Bureau, 1870–1935 | 1988 | Imago Mundi | |||
| Geographic brushing: Enhancing exploratory analysis of the scatterplot matrix | 1989 | Geographical analysis | |||
| Regionalizing and matching features for interpolated displacement in the automated generalization of digital cartographic databases | 1989 | Cartographica | |||
| Interpolated Generalization: Cartographic Theory For Expert guided Feature Displacement | 1989 | Cartographica | |||
| Strategies for the visualization of geographic time-series data | 1990 | Cartographica | |||
| 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 | |||
| Ethics and map design: Six strategies for confronting the traditional one-map solution | 1991 | Cartographic Perspectives | |||
| Authoring Graphic Scripts: Experiences and Principles | 1992 | Cartography and Geographic Information Systems | |||
| Summary Graphics for Integrated Visualization in Dynamic Cartography | 1992 | Cartography and Geographic Information Systems | |||
| Exploring the Quality of Enumeration-Area Data with Graphic Scripts | 1993 | Cartographica | |||
| What a Friend We Have in GIS | 1993 | The Professional Geographer | |||
| The Rise of the National Atlas | 1994 | Cartographica | |||
| Temporal Generalization for Dynamic Maps | 1996 | Cartography and Geographic Information Systems | |||
| Geography And Cartography In The Twenty-First Century | 1996 | Cartographic Perspectives | |||
| Civil War Newspaper Maps: A Historical Atlas | 1996 | Imago Mundi | |||
| Anatomy of a Cartographic Surrogate: the Portrayal of Complex Electoral Boundaries in the Congressional District Atlas | 2000 | Cartographic Perspectives | |||
| Hook, Line, and Gerrymander | 2000 | Mercator's World | |||
| Webcams, Interactive Index Maps, and Our Brave New World’s Brave New Globe | 2000 | Cartographic Perspectives | |||
| My Favorite Map | 2000 | Mercator's World | |||
| Simple Rules, Useful Maps | 2000 | Mercator's World | |||
| The dearth of modern projects | 2001 | Mercator's World | |||
| Orthophotos and orthophotoquad maps | 2001 | Mercator's World | |||
| Perfectly Flat | 2001 | Mercator's World | |||
| The changing landscape of cartographic copyright | 2001 | Mercator's World | |||
| Where Should Map History End? | 2001 | Mercator's World | |||
| Map Traps | 2001 | Mercator's World | |||
| Originality Bites | 2001 | Mercator's World | |||
| Current and seamless: the US geological survey's national map project.(All Over The Map) | 2001 | Mercator's World | |||
| Current and seamless: the US geological survey's national map project.(All Over The Map) | 2001 | Mercator's World | |||
| The earth moved: datums and detail on topographic maps.(All Over the Map |
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| 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 | |||
| Interstate Migration of Physicians in the United States: the Case of 1955–1959 Graduates | George A Schnell | 1976 | The Professional Geographer | |||
| U.S. Population Change 1960–70: Simplification, Meaning, And Mapping | George A Schnell | 1976 | Journal of Geography | |||
| Maps in Minds: Reflections on Cognitive Mapping | Roger M. Downs, David Stea | 1976 | Geographical Review | |||
| The mortality-fertility ratio: a useful measure for describing demographic change in the United States, 1940-1975. | George A Schnell | 1979 | Geographical survey | |||
| Population change: components, measurements and effects of scale(northwestern United States) | George A Schnell | 1979 | Ecumene | |||
| Focus Groups for Design Improvement in Dynamic Cartography | Myke Gluck | 1979 | Cartography and Geographic Information Systems | |||
| GIS in New York State county emergency management offices: User assessment | Alberto Giordano | 1998 | Applied Geographic Studies | |||
| Municipal boundaries and the idea of place | G. A. Schnell | 1998 | Pennsylvania Geographer | |||
| The Exploratory Essays Initiative: Background and Overview | David Woodward | 2002 | Cartography and Geographic Information Science | |||
| Title | Date | Journal/Publication | Identifier | Citation(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Review work: Medical Geography: Techniques and Field Studies | 1972 | Annals of the American Association of Geographers | |||
| Reviewed Work: Graphic Communication and Design in Contemporary Cartography D. R. Fraser Taylor | 1984 | Geographical Review | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Reviewed Work: Picturing Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Problems concerning the Use of Art in Science Brian S. Baigrie | 1997 | Geographical Review | |||
| Book Review: Framework for the world. | 1999 | Progress in Human Geography | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Dark spaces on the map | 2021 | Technology Review | |||
| Review of Emma Willard: Maps of History | 2023 | Cartographic Perspectives | |||