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Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS
A concise, down-to-earth guide to creating maps using GIS, this book is visually engaging, clear, and compelling–exactly how an effective map should be. Featuring over 300 maps and other figures,
Continue readingMap Projections: Theory and Applications
About the Author: Frederick Pearson has extensive experience in teaching map projection at the Air Force Cartography School and Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He developed star charts, satellite trajectory
Continue readingThe Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation
WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel Foundation The Map Reader brings together, for the first time, classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. This book provides a wide-ranging
Continue readingMaps and Diagrams: Their Compilation and Construction (University Paperbacks)
‘Maps are drawn by men and not turned out automatically,’ wrote the eminent American geographer, J. K. Wright, in his delightful essay ‘Map Makers are Human’. But proficiency in
Continue readingGIS and Cartographic Modeling
GIS and Cartographic Modeling is a foundational work in the field of geographic information systems (GIS). An introduction to the concepts, conventions, and capabilities of map algebra as a general language,
Continue readingChina in Ancient and Modern Maps
China has one of the world’s earliest civilizations and was the first country in the world to make maps. This volume shows how the development of cartography was an inseparable part of ancient Chinese
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