Cartography category: 112 books
The World of Maps
Map Reading and Interpretation for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Maps have power--they can instruct, make life easier, mislead, or even lie. This engaging text provides the tools to read, analyze, and use any kind of map and assess its strengths and weaknesses. Requiring no advanced math skills, the book presents basic concepts of symbolization, scale, coordinate...
Mapping
Ways of Representing the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
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 through the medium of mapping, together with the individual and environmental constraints of the creator of the map.
Sulle mappe
Il mondo come lo disegniamo
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 12, 2016
«Affascinante e coinviolgente. Una guida alle guide».
Dayly Mail
«Un'allegra perlustrazione della storia delle mappe, colma di curiosità e scritta con grande brio».
Indipendent on Sunday
Le mappe, è indiscutibile, non sono solo indispensabili ma hanno gran fascino. Ci permettono...
by David Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Practical Onshore Gas Field Engineering delivers the necessary framework to help engineers understand the needs of the reservoir, including sections on early transmission and during the life of the well. Written from a reservoir perspective, this reference includes methods and equipment from gas reservoirs,...
Ethics in Everyday Places
Mapping Moral Stress, Distress, and Injury
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
An exploration of moral stress, distress, and injuries inherent in modern society through the maps that pervade academic and public communications worlds.
In Ethics in Everyday Places, ethicist and geographer Tom Koch considers what happens when, as he puts it, “you do everything right but...
Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds
100 New Ways to See the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2019
A singular atlas of 100 infographic maps from thought-provoking to flat-out fun
Which countries don’t have rivers? Which ones have North Korean embassies? Who drives on the “wrong” side of the road? How many national economies are bigger than California’s? And where can you still find...
Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine
How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Digital practices in social and political landscapes: Why two researchers can look at the same feature and see different things.
Maps are widely believed to be objective, and data-rich computer-made maps are iconic examples of digital knowledge. It is often claimed that digital maps, and rational...
New Lines
Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
New Lines takes the pulse of a society increasingly drawn to the power of the digital map, examining the conceptual and technical developments of the field of geographic information science as this work is refracted through a pervasive digital culture. Matthew W. Wilson draws together archival research...
Aerial Aftermaths
Wartime from Above
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
From the first vistas provided by flight in balloons in the eighteenth century to the most recent sensing operations performed by military drones, the history of aerial imagery has marked the transformation of how people perceived their world, better understood their past, and imagined their future....
by Wolfgang Schreyer
Language: German
Release Date: May 20, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: May 20, 2012
Nach jahrelangem Materialstudium schrieb Wolfgang Schreyer dieses Tatsachenbuch - die fesselnde Geschichte der Luftaufklärung und Luftspionage. Sein Thema reicht von Alaska bis Israel, von Nicaragua bis Sibirien, vom ersten Späh-Ballon im Jahre 1794 bis zum modernen Foto-Satelliten. Was der Welt...
Understanding GIS
An ArcGIS Pro Project Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
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...
Kartenerstellung aus Landsat - Satellitenbilder mit Hilfe von ERDAS Imagine
Tourismuskarte an der Mittel- und Untermosel
Language: German
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Kartographie, Geodäsie, Geoinformationswissenschaften, Note: 1,7, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, - Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Rahmen des Seminars 'Einführung in die Satellitenkartographie'...
«Restituiamo la Storia» - giornate di studio
Per una condivisione dei documenti sull'oltremare: esperienze e opinioni
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 3, 2016
Questo volume, il secondo della collana che documenterà le attività del PRIN 2006 "Restituiamo la Storia", contiene apparentemente "solo" il resoconto di due giornate di studio dedicate al lavoro di ricerca in progress: l'una sui primi risultati presentati nell'ambito del Seminario di studi storico-cartografici...
A Primer of GIS, Second Edition
Fundamental Geographic and Cartographic Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
This accessible text prepares students to understand and work with geographic information systems (GIS), offering a detailed introduction to essential theories, concepts, and skills. The book is organized in four modular parts that can be used in any sequence in entry-level and more specialized courses....