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Designing Better Maps : A Guide for GIS Users
Cynthia Brewer
Paperback - $52.95
Describing how to build balanced map layouts suited to varied mapping goals, this guide focuses on export options that suit different media and can be edited in other applications. The wide range of text characteristics needed for expert map design a ...
Designed Maps : A Sourcebook for GIS Users
Cynthia A. Brewer
Paperback - $59.95
This sequel to the highly successful Designing Maps, offers a graphics-intensive presentation of published maps, providing cartographic examples that GIS users can then adapt for their own needs. Each chapter characterizes a common design decision an ...
Cartography with ArcView GIS Software
Borden D. Dent
Hardcover - $279.95
This introductory textbook introduces students to the different types of map projections, map design, and map production.Cartography is generally a sophomore or junior level course for geography majors and many professors are beginning to introduce c ...
Mapping : Ways of Representing the World
Daniel Dorling
Paperback - $53.95
Illustrates how maps tell us as much about the people and the powers which create them, as about the places they show. Presents historical and contemporary evidence of how the human urge to describe, understand and control the world is presented thro ...
Cartographic Science : A Compendium of Map Projections, with Derivations
Donald Fenna
Hardcover - $180.95
From basic projecting to advanced transformations, Cartographic Science explores the science of cartography, or depicting a curved world on a flat surface. Supported by 30 one-page mathematical tutorials, this book progresses through several layers o ...
The Void, the Grid & the Sign : Traversing the Great Basin
William L. Fox
Paperback - $30.95
What Barry Lopez did in expanding our vision of the frozen North in Arctic Dreams, William Fox has done in broadening our perceptions of the desert expanses of the West's Great Basin.
Roughly a quarter of a million acres of land spanning much of Ut ...
The History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 1 : Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies
J. B. Harley
Hardcover - $458.95
The first book of volume 2 of the monumental "History of Cartography focuses on mapping in non-Western cultures, an area of study traditionally overlooked by Western scholars. Extensive original research makes this the foremost source for defining, d ...
The History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 2 : Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies
J. B. Harley
Hardcover - $472.95
The monumental "History of Cartography" is an unprecedented survey of the development of cartography both as a science and an art. This essential reference presents the enormous value of maps to societies worldwide and explores the many ways they hav ...