Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The 1939-1945 U-Boat campaign was inherently a geographic puzzle.The geographic extent of U-Boat operations stretched across the world's oceans and seas.Despite this spatial extent, most U-Boat books present the campaign in chronological terms relying on text to convey that history.If maps are included, they are few in number, not well designed, and univariate.Thus, maps are relegated to a supporting role.Surprisingly, a cartographic perspective on examining this puzzle is missing.To fill this gap, this presentation argues that a cartographic analysis of the U-Boat campaign through data-driven and map-based evidence is needed to better visualize and understand this campaign's geographic puzzle.Geospatial data on the U-Boat campaign is published by Rohwer (1983), Kemp (1997), andNiestlé (1998).In these sources, records of each Allied vessel or U-Boat sunk include various attributes and coordinates.Visualizing this loss data using methods such as small multiple, mapping attributes, and bivariate/multivariate symbolization presents insights into the U-Boat campaign in ways not previously provided by U-Boat books.By applying these and other cartographic methods, the reader can begin to piece together this campaign's geographic puzzle by making inquiries into the why, where, and what of the geospatial data.
Source: Abstracts of the ICA
Author: Fritz Kessler
Institution: Pennsylvania State University
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4417324295
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