Cartography category: 112 books
Gis Open Source
GRASS GIS, Quantum GIS and SpatiaLite
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
The authors are all prominent experts in Open Source GIS in Italy and, in many cases, the international community. They are all professionals with involvement in training and scientific research and are highly motivated by their common goal of supporting Free Software. This is, therefore, an innovative...
Understanding GIS
An ArcGIS Pro Project Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
The first single-project GIS textbook on the market, Understanding GIS: An ArcGIS Pro Project Workbook, fourth edition is an excellent resource for students and educators seeking a guide for an advanced, single-project-based course that incorporates GIS across a wide range of disciplines. It allows...
Cartographies of Disease
Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, new expanded edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, new expanded edition, is a comprehensive survey of the technology of mapping and its relationship to the battle against disease. This look at medical mapping advances the argument that maps are not merely representations of spatial realities but...
GIS Tutorial for Health
Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
A handbook for teaching GIS to healthcare professionals, this reference discusses learning GIS software in the context of visualizing and analyzing health-related data. By outlining a hands-on approach that simulates how a GIS project would be developed in the real world, the included exercises set...
Tribal GIS
Supporting Native American Decision-Making
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Supporting tribes with an all new chapter on ArcGIS Pro, written by tribal leaders who successfully use GIS.
In Tribal GIS: Supporting Native American Decision-Making, tribal leaders tell their stories about implementing and using geographic information systems (GIS) to address their unique...
Developments in the Theory and Practice of Cybercartography
Applications and Indigenous Mapping
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Developments in the Theory and Practice of Cybercartography—awarded an Honorable Mention in Earth Science at the Association of American Publishers' 2015 PROSE Awards—examines some of the recent developments in the theory and practice of cybercartography and the substantial changes which have...
Mapping Naval Warfare
A visual history of conflict at sea
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Naval operations and warfare were, and remain, a key element for mapping. Maps were vital for commanders in drawing up plans of attack, and their detail and usefulness have increased over the centuries as the science of mapping has developed.
This beautiful book examines stunning original maps...
Mapping a forest or a land
Simply design a 3D plan to create a park, a tree climbing course, a house, a garden
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Want to design a 3D plan to create a recreational park, a tree climbing course, a house?
Do you need a preliminary draft of a terrain to draw 3-dimensional plans and make your dream come true?
You do not have the means or the desire to call on professionals and want to take the measurements by...
Map Of A Nation: A Biography Of The Ordnance Survey
A Biography of the Ordnance Survey
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Map of a Nation tells the story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey map – the first complete, accurate, affordable map of the British Isles. The Ordnance Survey is a much beloved British institution, and Map of a Nation is, amazingly, the first popular history to tell the story of the map and...
Map Men
Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
More than just colorful clickbait or pragmatic city grids, maps are often deeply emotional tales: of political projects gone wrong, budding relationships that failed, and countries that vanished. In Map Men, Steven Seegel takes us through some of these historical dramas with a detailed look at the...
by Rose Mitchell, Andrew Janes
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
A map is a snapshot of a place, a city, a nation or even the world at a given point in time - fascinating for what they tell us about the way our ancestors saw themselves, their neighbours and their place in the world. This magnificent collection, drawn from seven centuries of maps held in the National...
by C. Dana Tomlin
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
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, this book describes the analytical use of raster-based GIS. By focusing on the fundamentals of...
GIS Tutorial 1 for ArcGIS Pro
A Platform Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
GIS Tutorial 1 for ArcGIS® Pro: A Platform Workbook is an introductory text for learning ArcGIS Pro, the premier professional desktop GIS application. In-depth exercises that use ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, and other ArcGIS apps feature the latest GIS technology to show readers how to make maps,...
The Red Atlas
How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia’s access to detailed information on the United States and its allies may not seem so shocking in this day of data clouds and leaks, but long before we had...