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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

Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 22/01/2010
    ISBN13: 9781405121736, 978-1405121736
    ISBN10: 1405121734

    Number of Pages: 240

    Non Fiction , Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment , Education

    Description

    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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