Book Description
Map Types examines what maps are and how different maps are created and used. The book features beautiful color images, stunning historic and contemporary maps, and easy-to-follow text.
Author : Ann Becker
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780778742692
Map Types examines what maps are and how different maps are created and used. The book features beautiful color images, stunning historic and contemporary maps, and easy-to-follow text.
Author : Mary Dodson Wade
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780613679411
Introduces different types of maps and how they are used, including those that show how to get to a place and those that show what you will find when you arrive.
Author : Adam DuVander
Publisher : No Starch Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 18,74 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1593272715
"Websites like MapQuest and Google Maps have transformed the way we think about maps. But these services do more than offer driving directions, they provide APIs that web developers can use to build highly customized map-based applications. The author, Adam DuVander, delivers 73 useful scripts, examples that will s how you how to create interactive maps and mashups."--[book cover]
Author : Fritz Kessler
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 1351396056
A map projection fundamentally impacts the mapmaking process. Working with Map Projections: A Guide to Their Selection explains why, for any given map, there isn’t a single "best" map projection. Selecting a projection is a matter of understanding the compromises and consequences of showing a 3-D space in two dimensions. The book presents a clear understanding of the processes necessary to make logical decisions on selecting an appropriate map projection for a given data set. The authors discuss the logic needed in the selection process, describe why certain decisions should be made, and explain the consequences of any inappropriate decision made during the selection process. This book also explains how the map projection will impact the map’s ability to fulfill its purpose, uses real-world data sets as the basis for the selection of an appropriate map projection, and provides illustrations of an appropriately and inappropriately selected map projection for a given data set. The authors take a novel approach to discussing map projections by avoiding an extensive inventory of mathematical formulae and using only the mathematics of map projections that matter for many mapping tasks. They also present information that is directly applicable to the process of selecting map projections and not tied to a specific software package. Written by two leading experts, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone studying or working with geospatial data, from students to experienced professionals, and will help readers successfully weigh the pros and cons of choosing one projection over another to suit a map’s intended purpose.
Author : Stanley D. Brunn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9402410112
This book addresses the role and importance of space in the respective fields of the social sciences and the humanities. It discusses how map representations and mapping processes can inform ongoing intellectual debates or open new avenues for scholarly inquiry within and across disciplines, including a wide array of significant developments in spatial processes, including the Internet, global positioning system (GPS), affordable digital photography and mobile technologies. Last but not least it reviews and assesses recent research challenges across disciplines that enhance our understanding of spatial processes and mapping at scales ranging from the molecular to the galactic.
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Publisher :
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 30,7 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN :
Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.
Author : Gopal Singh
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 2009-11-01
Category :
ISBN : 9788125900764
The book encompasses a wide range of topics on practical geography taught to the B.A./B.Sc. students of Indian universities. Numerous examples and diagrams have been included in the text with the sole aim of enabling the students to have a comprehensive grasp of the subject. Attempt has also been made to present a well-balanced treatment of each topic. Topics like measurement of ground areas from maps, determination of class-interval for choropleth maps, representation of agricultural, industrial and transport data, choice of map projections, interpretation of topo-sheets, etc., have been included in this book and discussed in detail. Books treating various aspects of practical geography need regular up-dates. Therefore, the latest available material has been used to update this edition. Guidance of learned college and university teachers has enabled the author to present the subject-matter clearly and accurately. It is hoped that in addition to developing a keen interest for practical geography, it will form the basis for a more advanced study of the subject among the students.
Author :
Publisher : Social Studies
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 35,56 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Maps
ISBN : 1560043288
Author : Javier Esparza
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 2010-03-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3642120016
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2010, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in March 2010, as part of ETAPS 2010, the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software. The 35 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. The topics covered are probabilistic systems and optimization, decision procedures, tools, automata theory, liveness, software verification, real time and information flow, and testing.
Author : Nina Goga
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027265461
Maps and Mapping in Children’s Literature is the first comprehensive study that investigates the representation of maps in children’s books as well as the impact of mapping on the depiction of landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes in children’s literature. The chapters in this volume pursue a comparative approach as they represent a wide spectrum of diverse genres and national children’s literatures by examining a wealth of children’s books from Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Norway, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the USA. The theoretical and methodological approaches range from literary studies, developmental psychology, maps and geography literacy, ecocriticism, historical contextualization with both new historicist and political-historical leanings, and intermediality to materialist cartographies, cultural studies, island studies, and genre studies. By this, this volume aims at embedding children’s literature in a broader field of literary and cultural studies, thus situating children’s literature research within a general context of literary theory.