OUR PUBLICATIONS

CMS sponsors the publication of research by our members in cartography and related fields. Our policy effective 2011 is to publish our Occasional Papers (OPs) electronically on our public website in PDF format for reliable printing and in HTML format for optimal viewing and enhanced images whenever possible. The printed copies of the OPs currently are not available. At this time full copies of OPs are available below in PDF format except as noted. Some recent OPs or images are also available in HTML format. OP No. 5, a full book, is made available through an online copy courtesy of Stanford University.

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Occasional Paper	Title	Author(s) or Editor(s)	Date of Publication
No. 1	*The Maps, Plans and Sketches of Herman Ehrenberg; a Carto-Bibliography*	Diane M. T. North	August 1988
No. 2	*Development of the American Atlas: 1790 – 1980*	Judith A. Tyner	June 1989
No. 3	*University of California Library Bulletin No. 9, List of printed Maps of California, Berkeley, 1887*	Forward by Alfred W. Newman	December 1992
No. 4	*The History of the California Map Society*	Compiled by Sarah Crumb	October 1995
No. 5	*The Mapping of California as an Island* (this link takes you to an online copy)	Glen McLaughlin & Nancy H. Mayo	1995
No. 6	*California 49* (Introduction and Maps 1 through 12 now)	Warren Heckrotte & Julie Sweetkind	1999
No. 7	*Night Vision Maps*	Gerald L. Greenberg	February 2002
No. 8	*From the Stone Age to the Electronic Age: the Saga of a Cartographer in the Twentieth Century and Beyond* (excerpt only now)	Norman J. W. Thrower	September 2004
No. 9	*Maps and Civilization Revisited* (excerpt only now)	Norman J. W. Thrower	December 2009
No. 10	Of Beauties and Beasts: The Golden Age of Celestial Cartography in PDF format Of Beauties and Beasts: The Golden Age of Celestial Cartography in HTML format for viewing	Nick Kanas, M.D.	February 2010
No. 11	Maps: What I Collect and Why in PDF format What I collect and Why: Gallery of Maps	Glen McLaughlin	November 2012
No. 12	Cartocravatia in PDF format Cartocravatia Gallery of Ties (enlarged images)	Dr. Leonard Rothman	February 2013