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A primer of GIS : fundamental geographic and cartographic concepts /

By: Harvey, Francis.
Publisher: New York, NY : The Guilford Press, 2016Edition: Second edition.Description: xvi, 360 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781462522170 paperback; 9781462522170; 1462522173 paperback; 9781462522187 hardcover; 1462522181 hardcover.Subject(s): Geographic information systems | CartographyDDC classification: 910.285
Contents:
Preface -- PArt 1 : your world and GI technology -- Goals of cartography and GI : representation and communication -- Choices in how we make representations -- GI and cartography issues -- Some history and the continued many uses of GIS -- Part 2 : fundamentals and functions -- Projections -- Locational and coordinate systems -- Databases, cartography and GI -- Surveying, GPS, digitization -- Remote sensing -- Locations and fields : discrete and nondiscrete GI -- PArt 3 : techniques and practices -- Cartographic representation -- Map cultures, misuses and GI -- Administration of spaces -- Online mapping and geocoded worlds -- PArt 4 : fundamentals of GI analysis : understanding the world -- GI analysis and GIS -- Geostatistics -- Considering the past and future of GIS -- Glossary -- Sources and credits -- Index -- About the author.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- PArt 1 : your world and GI technology -- Goals of cartography and GI : representation and communication -- Choices in how we make representations -- GI and cartography issues -- Some history and the continued many uses of GIS -- Part 2 : fundamentals and functions -- Projections -- Locational and coordinate systems -- Databases, cartography and GI -- Surveying, GPS, digitization -- Remote sensing -- Locations and fields : discrete and nondiscrete GI -- PArt 3 : techniques and practices -- Cartographic representation -- Map cultures, misuses and GI -- Administration of spaces -- Online mapping and geocoded worlds -- PArt 4 : fundamentals of GI analysis : understanding the world -- GI analysis and GIS -- Geostatistics -- Considering the past and future of GIS -- Glossary -- Sources and credits -- Index -- About the author.

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