Cartography category: 112 books
Map Use
Reading, Analysis, Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Map Use: Reading, Analysis, Interpretation, eighth edition is a comprehensive, foundational textbook designed for the college curriculum. Now updated with a new section on map interpretation, Map Use provides students with the knowledge and skills to read and understand maps, and offers professional...
by Karl E. Ryavec
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Cradled among the world’s highest mountains—and sheltering one of its most devout religious communities—Tibet is, for many of us, an ultimate destination, a place that touches the heavens, a place only barely in our world, at its very end. In recent decades Western fascination with Tibet has...
Map Data Processing
Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute on Map Data Processing Held in Maratea, Italy, June 18–29, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Map Data Processing is a collection of papers from a NATO study on the same subject. This collection deals with the exchange of ideas and setting directions in research, particularly in pattern-recognition-, image-processing-, and computer-related issues. The papers discuss the usefulness of computer...
by Pakiza Saied
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Cartography, Geographic Information Science and Geodesy, Sheffield Hallam University, language: English, abstract: This research examines the changes in land use/land cover in the city of Sulaymaniyah north of Iraq and identifies...
The Look of Maps
An Examination of Cartographic Design
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Originally published in 1952, The Look of Maps documents Arthur H. Robinson’s pivotal observation that the discipline of cartography rests at the crossroads of science and art. Based on his doctoral research, this book attempts to resolve the apparent disconnect by covering a range of topics related...
Never Lost Again
The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
As enlightening as The Facebook Effect, Elon Musk, and Chaos Monkeys—the compelling, behind-the-scenes story of the creation of one of the most essential applications ever devised, and the rag-tag team that built it and changed how we navigate the world
Never Lost Again chronicles the evolution...
Rome Measured and Imagined
Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a “crumbling city” populated by “broken ruins” into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists, architects, and engineers fascinated by...
by Stefan Zweig
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Amerigo: A Comedy of Errors in History by Stefan Zweig (translated from the German by Andrew St. James, with a chronology of Stefan Zweig's life and a bibliography of works by and about Stefan Zweig in English by Randolph Klawiter; 24,000 words and 6 illustrations)
Stefan Zweig's Amerigo: A...
An Atlas of Countries that Don't Exist
A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
What is a country? Acclaimed travel writer and Oxford geography don Nick Middleton brings to life the origins and histories of 50 states that, lacking international recognition and United Nations membership, exist on the margins of legitimacy in the global order. From long-contested lands like Crimea...
by Damien Rudd
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Sad Topographies is an illustrated guide for the melancholic among us.
Dispirited travellers rejoice as Damien Rudd journeys across continents in search of the world’s most joyless place names and their fascinating etymologies.
Behind each lugubrious place name exists a story, a richly...
The Fourth Part of the World
The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
"Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name.
For millennia Europeans believed that the world...
by Graham Borradaile
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Understanding Geology through Maps guides young professional geologists and students alike in understanding and interpreting the world’s dynamic and varying geological landscapes through the liberal use of visual aids including figures, maps, and diagrams.
This highly visual reference introduces...
You Are Here
Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
An eye-opening exploration of the intriguing and often counter-intuitive science of human navigation and experience of place.
In the age of GPS and iPhones, human beings it would seem have mastered the art of direction, but does the need for these devices signal something else—that as a species...
Making Spatial Decisions Using ArcGIS Pro
A Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
"How can we protect...?" "Where do we allocate...?" "What's the extent and pattern of...?" You have questions in a spatial context; Making Spatial Decisions Using ArcGIS Pro has answers based in The Science of Where™.
Making Spatial Decisions Using ArcGIS Pro is...