Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS
Jeremy W. Crampton
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
Kategorie:
Rok:
2010
Wydawnictwo:
Wiley-Blackwell
Język:
english
Strony:
232
ISBN 10:
1405121734
ISBN 13:
9781405121736
Serie:
Critical Introductions to Geography
Plik:
PDF, 3.03 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2010