GIS, Cartography, and the “Third Culture”: Geographic Imaginations in the Computer AgeFootnote*

*I am grateful for Patricia Gober and Stanley Brunn's invitation to contribute to this special issue and for their extensive comments on the draft. I would like to thank (without implicating) Mike Goodchild, John Pickles, Barney Warf, Harvey CitationMiller, Paul Longley, Jonathan Smith, Jeremy Crampton, Francis Harvey, Nadine Schuurman, and two anonymous reviewers for their comments on earlier versions of this article. Thanks are also due to David Woodward for sending me his paper on the two cultures in cartography.

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