Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS

Krygier, John; Wood, Denis

ISBN 10: 1593852002 / ISBN 13: 9781593852009

Editore: The Guilford Press, 2005

Codice articolo 1593852002-3-37210118

Riassunto:

Until now, the field has lacked a concise, down-to-earth guide for people who must make effective maps using GIS. Making Maps is visually engaging, clear, and compelling - exactly how maps should be if they are to meet your goals.

Informazioni sull'autore:

John Krygier is a geographer with degrees from the University of Wisconsin?Madison and The Pennsylvania State University. He has extensive experience with map design and production, and has taught mapping and GIS at Penn State, the University of Oregon, The Ohio State University, and the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He is past president of the North American Cartographic Information Society, and the editor of the journal Cartographic Perspectives. He teaches mapping, GIS, and geography at Ohio Wesleyan University, and lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Denis Wood curated the Smithsonian’s award-winning Power of Maps exhibition and wrote the bestselling The Power of Maps (Guilford). More recently he has published Seeing Through Maps (ODT) and Five Billion Years of Global Change: A History of the Land (Guilford). He is an independent scholar living in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Titolo: Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design ...
Casa editrice: The Guilford Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2005
Legatura: paperback
Condizione: Good