How to Read a Map
By understanding how to read a map, you’ll be able to increase your understanding of the world around you.
Profiling interesting maps and geography items. Also listed in this category are articles relating to cartography (aka map making) and cartographic techniques.
By understanding how to read a map, you’ll be able to increase your understanding of the world around you.
This web site at the Library of Congress, this collection of over 2240 maps and 76 atlases from the Library of Congress, the Virgina Historical … Read more
June 20, 2002 Press Contacts: Dana Wormer (e-mail danawormer@earthlink.net; tel.: 215-563-2454) David Rumsey (e-mail: rumsey@luna-img.com) San Francisco, CA – The International Academy of Digital Arts … Read more
Campaign 2000 – the Battle for Florida In a dead heat, the battle for the presidency has come down to who will win Florida. With … Read more
A look at the 2000 US Presidential election through campaign maps.
Data gathered from two thousand year Fortune 1000 Company ranking was mapped in order to look at any spatial patterns in their locations.
The real value of GIS come from the ability to integrate spatial information with higher end statistical and analytical processes to derive spatial patterns not readily apparent to the observer.
The following cartographic principles were presented to the recent British Cartographic Society Design Group meeting at Glasgow University.