Charting the Unknown: How Computer Mapping at Harvard Became GIS (Esri Press Classics)

Chrisman, Nick

ISBN 10: 1589481186 / ISBN 13: 9781589481183

Published by Esri Press, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Charting the Unknown: How Computer Mapping at Harvard Became GIS (Esri Press Classics)
• Publisher: Esri Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1589481186
• ISBN 13: 9781589481183
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Charting the Unknown takes readers back more than four decades to the Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis where a variety if professionals converged to rethink thematic mapping, spatial analysis, and what we now call GIS. The book includes a CD that contains interviews with important figures at the Harvard Laboratory, three movies showing animated, visualization, and scanned copies of Context publications (from 1968 to 1983) describing research-related activities at the Lab.

About the Author

Nick Chrisman is an alumnus of the Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, the designer of POLYVRT, and a co-designer of ODYSSEY. He is the author of ""Exploring Geographic Information,"" a professor in geomatic sciences at Universite Laval, and the scientific director of the GEOIDE network. He lives in Quebec City, Quebec.