Waldo Tobler bibliography explained

Waldo Tobler's (November 16, 1930 – February 20, 2018) publications span between 1957 and 2017, with his most productive year being 1973. Despite retirement in 1994, he continued to be involved with research for the remainder of his life.^[1] Most of his publications consist of peer-reviewed journals, without single-issue textbooks or monographs, and the quantity of publications is noted as being unremarkable compared to modern geographers.^[2] Many of his works are foundational to modern geography and cartography, and still frequently cited in modern publications, including the first paper on using computers in cartography, the establishment of analytical cartography, and coining Tobler's first and second laws of geography.^[1] His work covered a wide range of topics, with many of his papers considered to be "cartographic classics", that serve as required reading for both graduate and undergraduate students.^{[2] [1]}

The Library of Congress maintains some of Tobler's early work in "The Waldo Tobler Collection," and the UC Santa Barbra Library maintains a collection of his material donated by his widow in "The Waldo Tobler Academic Archives."^[3] During his life, there were several book chapters dedicated to discussing him, and an entry in the twentieth-century volume of the History of Cartography. Many of his publications were included in "select publications" or "key readings" section in these chapters. After his death, several articles in his honor discussed his publications, including a review of all his publications in the journal "Geographic Analysis".

Peer reviewed Articles

Single author

Title	Date	Journal/Publication	Identifier	Citation(s)	Notes
The Multiple Use Concept in Cartography	1957	The Professional Geographer
Automation and Cartography	1959	The Geographical Review		^[4] ^[5]
World Map on a Moebius Strip	1961	Surveying and Mapping
Tissot's Indicatrix and Photogrammetry	1962	Photogrammetric Engineering	Link	^[6]
A Classification of Map Projections	1962	Annals of the Association of American Geographers		^[7]
The Polar Case of Hammer's Projection	1962	The Professional Geographer
Geographic Area and Map Projections	1963	The Geographical Review
Geographic Ordering of Information	1963	The Canadian Geographer
A Comparison of Spherical and Ellipsoidal Values	1964	The Professional Geographer
Automation in the preparation of thematic maps	1965	The Cartographic Journal		^[8] ^[9]
Medieval Distortions: The Projections of Ancient Maps	1965	Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Computation of the correspondence of geographical patterns	1965	Papers in Regional Science
Notes on Two Projections	1966	The Cartographic Journal
Of Maps and Matrices	1967	Journal of Regional Science		^[10]
Computer Use in Geography	1967	Behavioral Science
Satellite Confirmation of Settlement Size Coefficients	1969	Area
Geographical Filters and their Inverse	1969	Geographical analysis
A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region	1970	Economic Geography		^[11] ^[12] ^[13] ^[14] ^[15] ^[16] ^[17]
Regional Analysis: Time Series Extended to Two Dimensions	1973	Geographia Polonica
The hyperelliptical and other new pseudocylindrical equal area map projections	1973	Journal of Geophysical Research
A Continuous Transformation Useful for Districting	1973	Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Choropleth Maps Without Class Intervals?	1973	Geographical analysis		^[18]
Local Map Projections	1974	The American Cartographer
A Computer Program to Draw Perspective Views of Geographical Data	1974	The American Cartographer
A Preliminary Analysis of the Spread of the Depression	1975	Geographical analysis
Analytical Cartography	1976	The American Cartographer		^[19] ^[20] ^[21] ^[22]
The Comparison of Plane Forms	1978	Geographical analysis
Comparing Figures by Regression	1978	Computer Graphics
A Proposal for an Equal Area Map of the Entire World on Mercator's Projection	1978	The American Cartographer
A Transformational View of Cartography	1978	The American Cartographer
Lattice Tuning	1979	Geographical analysis
A Geographical Migration Probability Density Function	1979	Ontario Geography
Smooth Pycnophylactic Interpolation for Geographical Regions	1979	Journal of the American Statistical Association		^[23] ^[24]
Estimation of Attractivities from Interactions	1979	Environment and Planning A
Depicting Federal Fiscal Transfers	1981	The Professional Geographer
A Model of Geographic Movement	1981	Geographical analysis
An Alternate Formulation for Spatial Interaction Modeling	1983	Environment and Planning A
The Morphology of Geographical Change	1985	Ontario Geography
Derivation of a Spatially Continuous Transportation Model	1985	Transportation Research
Polycylindric Map Projections	1986	The American Cartographer
Pseudo–Cartograms	1986	The American Cartographer
Measuring the Similarity of Map Projections"	1986	The American Cartographer
The geographic movement of wealth in the United States	1986	MappeMonde
Experiments in Migration Mapping by Computer	1987	The American Cartographer
Spherical Quadrilateral to Map Scale Conversion	1989	The American Cartographer
An Update to 'Numerical Map Generalization	1989	Cartographica
Visual Evidence for Urban Potential Fields	1991	MappeMonde
Bidimensional Regression	1994	Geographical analysis
The Resel Based GIS"	1995	International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Migration: Ravenstein, Thornthwaite, and Beyond	1995	Urban Geography
A Graphical Introduction to Survey Adjustment	1996	Cartographica
The Equidominance Line: A New Geopolitical Concept	1997	Applied Geographical Studies
Movement Modeling on the Sphere	1997	Geographical & Environmental Modeling
Introductory Comments on Information Theory & Cartography	1997	Cartographic Perspectives
Alternatives to Miller's Projection	1997	Cartography and Geographic Information Science
World Population in a grid of Spherical Quadrangles	1997	Int. J. Population Geography
Linear pycnophylactic reallocation comment on a paper by D. Martin	1999	International Journal of Geographical Information Science
The Development of Analytical Cartography: a personal note	2000	Cartography and Geographic Information Science		^[25]
Spherical Measures without Spherical Trigonometry	2001	Solstice: An Electronic Journal of Geography and Mathematics,
Qibla, and Related, Map Projections	2002	Cartography and Geographic Information Science
Global Spatial Analysis	2002	Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems
Thirty-Five Years of Computer Cartogram	2004	Annals of the Association of American Geographers
On the First Law of Geography: A Reply	2004	Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Estimating Potentials from Asymmetry	2005	Solstice A refereed Electronic Journal of Geography and Mathematics
Unusual Map Projections	2008	Cartographic Perspectives
The Curious Case Of 2½ D	2015	Quaestiones Geographicae
A new companion for Mercator	2017	Cartography and Geographic Information Science		^[26]

Book Reviews

Title	Date	Journal/Publication	Identifier	Citation(s)	Notes
Review of J. Bertin, “Semiologie Graphique”	1969	Journal of the American Statistical Association
Review of J. Forrester, "Urban Dynamics"	1970	Geographical analysis
Review of J. Rayner, "An Introduction to Spectral Analysis"	1972	Geographical analysis
Review of D. Maling, "Coordinate Systems and Map Projections"	1974	Surveying and Mapping
Review of C. Brandenberger, "Koordinatentransformationen fuer Digitale Kartographische Daten mit Lagrange– und Spline–Interpolation."	1986	Surveying and Mapping

Collaborations

Title	Co-Authors(s)	Date	Journal/Publication	Identifier	Citation(s)	Notes
The Multiple Use Concept in Cartography	J. Sherman	1957	The Professional Geographer
Geographical Ordering of Information: New Opportunities	Brian Berry and Richard Morrill	1964	The Professional Geographer
Geobotanical Distance Between New Zealand and Neighboring Islands	H. W. Mielke, T. R. Detwyler	1970	BioScience
Uniform Distribution of Objects in a Homogeneous Field: Cities on a Plain	Leon Glass	1971	Nature
A Cappadocian Speculation	Sam Wineburg	1971	Nature
Spectral Analysis of Innovation Diffusion	B. Barton	1971	Geographical analysis
Geographical Variances	H. Moellering	1972	Geographical analysis
Isopleth Mapping using Histosplines	J. Lau	1978	Geographical analysis
Interpolation of images via Histosplines	J. Lau	1979	Computer Graphics and Image Processing
Push–Pull Migration Laws	Guido Dorigo	1983	Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Geographical Interpolation	Susan Kennedy	1983	Geographical analysis
The Globular Projection Generalized	M. Petrich	1984	The American Cartographer
Smooth Multidimensional Interpolation	Susan Kennedy	1985	Geographical analysis
Computerized Quantitative Analysis of Kinetic Visual Fields	R. Weleber	1896	American Journal of Ophthalmology
A Quadtree for Global Information Storage	Zi-tan Chen	1986	Geographical analysis
Exploring the Anchor Point Hypothesis of Spatial Cognition	H. Couclelis, R. Golledge, N. Gale,	1987	Journal of Environmental Psychology
Three World Maps on a Moebius Strip	Mark P. Kumler	1991	Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Books and translations

Title	Co-Authors(s)	Date	Journal/Publication	Identifier	Citation(s)	Notes
Notes and comments on the Composition of Terrestrial and Celestial Maps		1972	Michigan Geographical Publication		^[27]
Map Projection Transformation: Principles and Applications	Qihe Yang John P. Snyder	2000	Taylor & Francis
Are There Fundamental Principles in Geographic Information Science?	Nicholas R. Chrisman; Andrew Frank; Dan Sui; Michael Frank Goodchild	2012

Book chapters, conference proceedings, and technical reports

Title	Editor(s)	Date	Publication	Identifier	Citation(s)	Notes
Electronic Mapping		1962	Conference Proceedings, Am Institute of Planners
Spectral Analysis of Spatial Series		1966	Proceedings, Fourth Annual Conference on Urban Planning Information Systems
Geometric Projections in System Studies	William Garrison Duane Marble	1967	Quantitative Geography, II
Transformations	J. Nystuen	1968	Michigan Inter-University Community of Mathematical Geographers Discussion Paper # 12
Problems and Prospects in Geographical Photointerpretation	Cheng; Ledley; Pollock; Rosenfeld	1968	Proceedings, Symposium on Automatic Photointerpretation
Data Display and Presentation	Roger Tomlinson	1972	Environment Information Systems
Spatial Diffusion from a Geographer's Point of View	W. Benninghoff; R. Edwards	1972	U.S. International Biological Program Aerobiology Handbook No. 2
Two Computer Districting Experiments	S. Pollock	1972	Algorithmic Approaches to Political Districting: Report of the Activities of a Seminar
Cartograms and Cartosplines		1976	Proceedings: Workshop on Automated Cartography and Epidemiology, Washington, D.C., Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Spatial Interaction: Extracting Meaning from Masses of Data	E. Swain	1976	The IIASA Project on Urban and Regional Systems
The Geometry of Mental Maps	R. Golledge; G. Rushton	1977	Essays on the Multidimensional Analysis of Perceptions and Preferences
Numerical Approaches to Map Projections	I. Kretschmer	1977	Studies in Theoretical Cartography
Forecasting Geographical Migration		1977	Report of the Conference on Economic and Demographic Methods for Projecting Population
Cellular Geography	S. Gale; G. Olsson	1979	Philosophy in Geography
Migration Fields	W. Clark; E. Moore	1978	Population Mobility and Residential Change
Statistical Cartography: What is it?		1980	Auto–Carto IV	link
Surveying Multidimensional Measurement	R.G. Golledge; J.N.Rayner	1982	Proximity and Preference: Problems in the Multidimensional Analysis of Large Data Sets
Cartographic Study of Movement Tables		1982	Proceedings, National Computer Graphics Association
Measuring Spatial Resolution		1987	Proceedings, Land Resources Information Systems Conference
Alternatives in Movement Mapping		1987	Proceedings, 13th International Cartographic Conference
Resolution, Resampling, and All That	Helen Mounsey; Roger Tomlinson	1987	Building Data Bases for Global Science
The Quadratic Transportation Problem as a Model of Spatial Interaction Patterns	W. Foffey	1988	Essays in honor of William Warntz
Prediction of Geographic Base File Size from Urban Area or Population	H. Veregin	1989	ICA Conference, Budapest
Frame Independent Spatial Analysis	Michael Goodchild	1990	Accuracy of Spatial Data Bases
GIS Transformations		1990	Proceedings, National Computer Graphics Association Conference, Anaheim
Preliminary Representation of World Population by Spherical Harmonics		1992	Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences
Three presentations on geographical analysis and modeling: Non-isotropic geographic modeling speculations on the geometry of geography global spatial analysis		1993	National center for geographic information and analysis	TECHNICAL REPORT 93-1	^[28] ^[29]
Oblique Map Projections using Rotation Matrices	H. Ernste	1994	Pathways to Human Ecology
The Global Demography Project	Uwe Deichmann, Jon Gottsegen, and Kelly Maloy	1995	National center for geographic information and analysis	Technical Report TR-95-6	^[30]
History of Cartography as taught at UCSB	F. Ormeling; Y. Bouma	1996	Seminar on Teaching of the History of Cartography
Converting Administrative Data on a Sphere to a Continuous Surface		1996	Proceedings, 3rd International Conference on Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling
Demography in Global Change Studies		1997	Proceedings, AutoCarto 13	link
Ma Vie	W. Pitts and P. Gould	2002	Geographical Voices

Intervew

Tobler was one of many geographers interviewed in the American Association of Geographers Geographers on Film series.

• News: Pitts . Forrest Ralph. 1992. Geographers on Film Interview With Waldo Tobler.. en. 13 February 2024.

See also

External links

• Waldo R. Tobler at UCSB
• The Waldo Tobler Academic Archives
• Waldo R. Tobler collection : the beginnings of computerized geographic information systems

Notes and References

1. Clarke . Keith C. . 2018-07-04 . Waldo R. Tobler (1930–2018) . Cartography and Geographic Information Science . en . 45 . 4 . 287–288 . 10.1080/15230406.2018.1447399 . 2018CGISc..45..287C . 133763290 . 1523-0406. free .
2. Unwin . David . Waldo Tobler: An appreciation of the contributions made to geographic information science . Transactions in GIS . 26 March 2019 . 23 . 2 . 387–393 . 10.1111/tgis.12529. 2019TrGIS..23..387U . 108347627 .
3. Web site: Preserving Groundbreaking Research in Geography, Geoinformatics and Geographic Information Science . The Waldo Tobler Academic Archives . 18 October 2023 . UC Santa Barbra Library . 12 January 2024.
4. Web site: DeMers . Michael N. . GIS . Geography & Travel . Britannica . 13 January 2024.
5. Dorling . Danny . Hennig . Benjamin . Waldo Tobler: Remembering a genius . The Cartographic Journal . 2018 . 55 . 3 . 303–304 . 10.1080/00087041.2018.1507181 . 2018CartJ..55..303D . 13 January 2024.
6. Web site: Publications . Waldo Tobler . Geography Department University of California, Santa Barbara . 13 February 2024.
7. Book: Karan . P.P. . Mather . Cotton . Leaders in American Geography Volume II: Research . 2000 . New Mexico Geographical Society . 0-9643841-1-6 . 234–239 . 24 January 2024.
8. Web site: Waldo R. Tobler collection . The Library of Congress . 13 February 2024.
9. Book: Tobler . Waldo . Kent . Alexander . Landmarks in Mapping . 2014 . Taylor & Francis . 9781351191234 . 13 . 13 February 2024 . Automation in the Preparation of Thematic Maps*. 10.4324/9781351191234-2 .
10. Book: Flowerdew . Robin . Hubbard . Phil . Kitchin . Rob . Key Thinkers on Space and Place . 2011 . SAGE Publications Ltd . 978-1-84920-101-8 . 421–425 . 2 . https://books.google.com/books?id=JAhdBAAAQBAJ&dq=Waldo+Tobler&pg=PA421 . 7 February 2024 . Waldo Tobler.
11. Murray . Alan T. . Xu . Jing . Baik . Jiwon . Burtner . Susan . Cho . Seonga . Noi . Evgeny . Pludow . B. Amelia . Zhou . Enbo . Overview of Contributions in Geographical Analysis: Waldo Tobler . Geographical Analysis . 2020 . 52 . 4 . 480–493 . 10.1111/gean.12257 . 2020GeoAn..52..480M . 224848171 . 26 January 2024.
12. Tobler . Waldo . On the First Law of Geography: A Reply . Annals of the Association of American Geographers . 2004 . 94 . 2 . 304–310 . 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.09402009.x . 33201684 . 10 March 2022.
13. Westlund . Hans . A brief history of time, space, and growth: Waldo Tobler's first law of geography revisited . The Annals of Regional Science . 18 August 2013 . 51 . 3 . 917–924 . 10.1007/s00168-013-0571-3 . 13 January 2024.
14. Book: Hecht . Brent . Moxley . Emily . Terabytes of Tobler: Evaluating the First Law in a Massive, Domain-Neutral Representation of World Knowledge . Spatial Information Theory 9th International Conference, COSIT 2009, Aber Wrac'h, France, September 21–25, 2009, Proceedings . Lecture Notes in Computer Science . 2009 . 5756 . 88 . Springer. 10.1007/978-3-642-03832-7_6 . 2009LNCS.5756...88H . 978-3-642-03831-0 .
15. Sui . Daniel Z. . Tobler's First Law of Geography: A Big Idea for a Small World? . Annals of the Association of American Geographers . 2004 . 94 . 2 . 269–277 . 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.09402003.x . 3693983 . 16 January 2024.
16. Phillips . Jonathan D. . Doing Justice to the Law . Annals of the Association of American Geographers . 2004 . 94 . 2 . 290–293 . 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.09402006.x . 3693986 . 24 January 2024.
17. Barnes . Trevor J. . A Paper Related to Everything but More Related to Local Things . Annals of the Association of American Geographers . 2004 . 94 . 2 . 278–283 . 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.09402004.x . 3693984 . 24 January 2024.
18. Dobson . Michael W. . Choropleth Maps Without Class Intervals?: A Comment . Geographical Analysis . October 1973 . 5 . 4 . 358–360 . 10.1111/j.1538-4632.1973.tb00498.x . 1973GeoAn...5..358D . 16 January 2024.
19. Tobler . Waldo . The Development of Analytical Cartography: A Personal Note . Cartography and Geographic Information Science . 2000 . 27 . 3 . 189–194 . 10.1559/152304000783547867 . 2000CGISc..27..189T . 14 February 2024.
20. Mcmaster . Robert . Mcmaster . Susanna . A history of twentieth-century American academic cartography . Cartography and Geographic Information Science . 2002 . 29 . 3 . 305–321 . 10.1559/152304002782008486 . 2002CGISc..29..305M . 13 February 2024.
21. Book: Clarke . Keith C. . Monmonier . Mark . The History of Cartography, Volume 6: Cartography in the Twentieth Century . 2015 . University of Chicago Press . 978-0226152127 . 5 February 2024 . Tobler, Waldo R(udolph)..
22. Book: Getis . Arthur . Batey . Peter . Plane . David . Great Minds in Regional Science . 2020 . Springer Nature . Switzerland . 978-3-030-46157-7 . 185–198 . https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-46157-7_12 . 13 January 2024 . Waldo Tobler (1931–2018): Analytical Cartographer and Regional Scientist. Footprints of Regional Science . 10.1007/978-3-030-46157-7_12 . 226747451 .
23. Dyn . Nira . Wahba . Grace . Wong . Wing-Hung . Smooth Pycnophylactic Interpolation for Geographical Regions: Comment . Journal of the American Statistical Association . 1979 . 74 . 367 . 530–535 . 10.2307/2286969 . 2286969 . 16 January 2024.
24. Kim . Hwahwan . Yao . Xiaobai . Pycnophylactic interpolation revisited: integration with the dasymetric-mapping method . International Journal of Remote Sensing . 2010 . 31 . 21 . Hwahwan . 10.1080/01431161.2010.496805 . 2010IJRS...31.5657K . 16 January 2024.
25. Book: Clarke . Keith C. . Monmonier . Mark . The History of Cartography, Volume 6: Cartography in the Twentieth Century . 2015 . University of Chicago Press . 978-0226152127 . 5 February 2024 . Tobler, Waldo R(udolph)..
26. Monmonier . Mark . Waldo R. Tobler (1930–2018) . Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography . 2019 . 71 . 1 . 87–88 . 10.1080/03085694.2019.1529916 . 48547969 . 134145871 . 25 January 2024.
27. Clarke . Keith C. . 2018-07-04 . Waldo R. Tobler (1930–2018) . Cartography and Geographic Information Science . en . 45 . 4 . 287–288 . 10.1080/15230406.2018.1447399 . 2018CGISc..45..287C . 133763290 . 1523-0406. free .
28. Goodchild . Michael F. . Beyond Tobler's Hiking Function . Geographical Analysis . 2020 . 52 . 4 . 558–569 . 10.1111/gean.12253 . 2020GeoAn..52..558G . 225510431 . 26 January 2024.
29. Higgins . Christopher D . Hiking with Tobler: Tracking Movement and Calibrating a Cost Function for Personalized 3D Accessibility . Transport Findings . 2021 . 10.32866/001c.28107 . 26 January 2024. free .
30. Dobson . Jerome E. . Brlght . Edward A. . Coleman . Phllllp R. . Durfee . Rlchard C. . Worley . Brian A. . LandScan: A Global Population Database for Estimating Populations at Risk . Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing . 2000 . 66 . 7 . 849–857 . 6 February 2024.