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Map Scripting 101
No Starch Press 2010; US$ 27.95Web services like Mapquest and Google Maps have transformed the way we think about and use maps. But these services do more than just driving directionsthey provide APIs that web developers can use to build customized map applications. In Map Scripting 101 , author Adam DuVander uses a project-based approach to teach you how to create useful... more...
Cartographies of Travel and Navigation
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 48.00Finding one’s way with a map is a relatively recent phenomenon. In premodern times, maps were used, if at all, mainly for planning journeys in advance, not for guiding travelers on the road. With the exception of navigational sea charts, the use of maps by travelers only became common in the modern era; indeed, in the last two hundred years,... more...
Journeys
Shell Education 2008; US$ 8.99A shark is a type of fish that has about 350 different species in the world. Sharks are made up of cartilage and are always growing new teeth. Sometimes the teeth grow in rows of 5. Sharks are known to be dangerous creatures, but they do not kill as many people as one would think. Some different sharks are whale sharks, great white sharks, hammerhead... more...
Looking at Maps
Shell Education 2008; US$ 8.99Maps show us where things are in the world with abstract pictures of what is in view. Many maps have grid coordinates that make it easier to locate where something is. A vertical grid line is known as longitude and a horizontal line is known as latitude. Symbols and keys are important parts of maps. A scale helps us know how far apart things are from... more...
King's Two Maps
Routledge 2004; US$ 44.95This book chronicles the specific technologies, material and epistemological, by which the map - a peculiar artefact, part image and part treatise - shows itself capable of accessing, organizing and reorienting a tremendous range of information. more...
Maps and Politics
Reaktion Books 2000; US$ 26.50?We all rely on the apparent accuracy and objectivity of maps, but often do not see the very process of mapping as political. Are the power and purpose of maps inherently political? Maps and Politics addresses this important question and seeks to emphasize that the apparent ‘objectivity’ of the map-making and map-using process cannot... more...
GIS, Environmental Modeling and Engineering
CRC Press 2009; US$ 107.95Explores how to use GIS and external models to solve real environmental problems. This text defines GIS, identifies how data is structured, and explains common functionality. It provides case studies and covers issues such as interoperability, data quality, model validity, space-time dynamics, and decision-support systems. more...
The Mapmakers' Quest
OUP Oxford 2003; US$ 35.99In 1400 Europe was behind large parts of the world in its understanding of the use of maps. For instance, the people gf China and of Japan were considerably more advanced in this respect. And yet, by 1600 the Europeans had come to use maps for a huge variety of tasks, and were far ahead of the rest of the world in their appreciation of the power and... more...
Small-scale Map Projection Design
CRC Press 2002; US$ 84.95This book focuses on numerical map projection research and is written from the perspective of the map projection user. more...









