Daniel Cole

maps for museum exhibits
mapping Native American history, activities, lands, land tenure
thematic mapping of the oceans
thematic mapping of dinosaurs

academic, author
currently past-president of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS)
technical editor of Cartographica, the journal of the Canadian Cartographic Association

Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS)
North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS)
Canadian Cartographic Association (CCA)

favorite map: A Map of Indian Nations in the Southern Department, 1766, by John Gerar William de Brahm.
favorite map that I own: Mapa de la Frontera del Vircinata de Nueva Espana, 1771, by Nicolas de Lapora.

Cole, Daniel G., and E. Richard Hart, 2021. “The Importance of Indigenous Cartography and Toponymy to Historical Land Tenure and Contributions to Euro/American/Canadian Cartography,” International Journal of Geo-Information, 10 (6): pp. 397-410. Open access online at
https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/10/6/397

Cole, Daniel G., 2021. "A Cartographic History and Analyses of Indian-White Relations in the Great Plains," Chapter 6 in Hess, Janet Berry, ed., Digital Mapping and Indigenous America, Routledge, New York City.

Cole, Daniel G., and Imre Sutton, eds., 2014. Mapping Native America: Cartographic Interactions between Indigenous Peoples, Government, and Academia, 3 vols., CreateSpace/Amazon, North Charleston, SC.

Cole, Daniel G., and Imre Sutton, 2013. “A Cartographic History of Indian-White Government Relations over the Past 400 Years,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 37 (1): 5-77.

Cole, Dan, 2012. “Khoton Project Cartographic Diary” in Rock Art and Archaeology: Investigating Ritual Landscape in the Mongolian Altai: Field Report 2011, William W. Fitzhugh and Richard Kortum, eds., Maegan Tracy, producer, The Arctic Studies Center, NMNH, Smithsonian, Washington, DC: 115-124.

Fernandez, Miguel, Daniel Cole, W. Ronald Heyer, Steffen Reichle, and Rafael O. de Sa, 2009. “Predicting Leptodactylus (Amphibia, Anura, Leptodactylidae) Distributions: Broad-Ranging versus Patchily Distributed Species Using a Presence-Only Ecological Niche Modeling Technique,” South American Journal of Herpetology, 4 (2): 103-116.

Cole, Daniel G., 2003. “Cartography for the Scientific Illustrator,” in The Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration, 2nd ed., Elaine R.S. Hodges, ed., with Steve Buchanan, John Cody, and Trudy Nicholson, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

Heyer, W.R., P. Acevedo, J. Coddington, D.G. Cole, T.L. Erwin, W.J. Kress, B.J. Meggers, M.G. Pogue, R.W. Thorington, R.P. Vari, M.J. Weitzman, and S.H. Weitzman, 1999. “Amazonian Biotic Data and Conservation Decisions,” Ciencia e Cultura, 51: 372-385.

Kress, W.J., W.R. Heyer, P. Acevedo, J. Coddington, D.G. Cole, T.L. Erwin, B.J. Meggers, M.G. Pogue, R.W. Thorington, R.P. Vari, M.J. Weitzman, and S.H. Weitzman, 1998. “Amazonian Biodiversity: Assessing Conservation Priorities with Taxonomic Data,” Biodiversity and Conservation, 7: 1577-1587.

Potts, Richard, Thomas Jorstad, and Daniel Cole, 1996. “The Role of GIS in the Interdisciplinary Investigations at Olorgesailie, Kenya, a Pleistocene Archeological Locality,” in Aldenderfer, M., and H.D.G.Maschner, eds., Anthropology, Space, and Geographic Information Systems, Oxford Univ. Press, NYC, pp. 202-213.

Cole, Daniel G., 1993. “One Cartographic View of American Indian Land Areas,” Cartographica, 30, 1: 47-54.

Cole, Daniel G., 1989. “Cartography for Scientific Illustrators,” in Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration, Elaine R.S. Hodges, ed., Van Nostrand Reinhold, NYC, pp. 461-487.

Cole, Daniel G., 1981. “Recall vs Recognition and Task Specificity in Cartographic Psychophysical Testing,” The American Cartographer, 8,1: 55-66.

Groop, Richard E., and Daniel G. Cole, 1978. “Overlapping Graduated Circles: Magnitude Estimation and Method of Portrayal,” The Canadian Cartographer, 15, 2: 114-122.

Kimerling, Buckley, Muehrcke, and Muercke, 2016. Map Use: Reading, Analysis, Interpretation, 8th ed., Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.
Slocum, McMaster, Kessler, and Howard, 2008. Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization, 3rd ed., Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall.
Snyder, John, 1993. Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections, University of Chicago Press.