Ormeling’s Cartography

Summary

This review assesses Ormeling’s Cartography, a commemorative volume marking Ferjan Ormeling Jr.’s retirement from Utrecht University. It situates Ormeling within the Netherlands’ enduring influence on cartography and emphasizes his extensive scholarship, teaching, and international service. The volume assembles fourteen previously published papers spanning atlases, toponymy, data quality, cartographic education and visualization, infrastructure, media mapping, and cartographic history, supplemented by a biography, bibliography, and collection description. Despite occasionally awkward English, the contributions demonstrate the breadth and vitality of modern cartography. The reviewer concludes that the book is especially valuable for understanding how maps may visually amplify, distort, suppress, or promote geographical differences, whether intentionally or inadvertently.