10-18-2011, 05:14 AM
Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS
Author: Jeremy W. Crampton | Size: 2.80 MB | Format: PDF | Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell | Year: 2010 | pages: 232 | ISBN: 1405121726
Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS is an introduction to the critical issues surrounding mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) across a wide range of disciplines for the non-specialist reader.
* Examines the key influences Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cartography have on the study of geography and other related disciplines
* Represents the first in-depth summary of the “new cartography” that has appeared since the early 1990s
* Provides an explanation of what this new critical cartography is, why it is important, and how it is relevant to a broad, interdisciplinary set of readers
* Presents theoretical discussion supplemented with real-world case studies
* Brings together both a technical understanding of GIS and mapping as well as sensitivity to the importance of theory
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