Menno-Jan Kraak (born 28 March 1958,

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) is a Dutch cartographer and professor of Geovisual Analytics and Cartography at the Faculty of Geoinformation Sciences and Earth Observation at the

University of Twente The University of Twente (Dutch: ''Universiteit Twente''; , abbr. ) is a public technical university located in Enschede, Netherlands. The university has been placed in the top 170 universities in the world by multiple central ranking tables. I ...

. He is known for his work in cartography and his activities in the

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Academic career

Menno-Jan Kraak graduated (MSc) in

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from Faculty of Geographical Sciences,

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in 1981. Between 1981 and 1983 he did his compulsory army service as an officer in a military geography unit. In 1983 Kraak started to work at Faculty of Geodesy,

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as Assistant, and later as Associate Professor in Cartography. In 1996 he started as full professor of Cartography at

ITC Enschede The International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) was an institute of higher (tertiary) education located in Enschede, Netherlands. As of 1 January 2010 it has been incorporated into the University of Twente as ...

. Between 1998 and 2010 he was appointed as professor in New Visualization Techniques in Cartography at Department of GeoSciences, Utrecht University. In 2010, ITC became part of University of Twente and Menno-Jan became professor of Geovisual Analytics and Cartography. Currently he is head of ITC’s Geoinformation Processing Department. From 2015 to 2019, Kraak was president of the

Selected publications

*''Cartography visualization of spatial data.'' With Ferjan Ormeling. London: Routledge / New York Guildford Press, 3rd edition, 2011. Translations to Polish (1998), Russian (2005), Indonesian (2007), and Chinese (2014). Original Dutch editions Delft University Press, 1987, 1990 and 1993. *''Web Cartography – developments and prospects.'' With A. Brown. London: Taylor & Francis, 2000. *''Exploring Geovisualization.'' With

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and Alan M. MacEachren. Amsterdam: Elseviers /International Cartographic Association, 2005. *''Mapping Time: Illustrated by Minard's Map of Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812.'' Redlands: ESRI Press, 2014.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kraak, Menno-Jan 1958 births Living people Dutch cartographers University of Twente faculty Utrecht University alumni Utrecht University faculty People from Epe, Netherlands