Mapping : A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS

Jeremy W Crampton

ISBN 10: 1405121734 / ISBN 13: 9781405121736

Published by Wiley Feb 2010, 2010

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Neuware - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mapping : A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS
• Publisher: Wiley Feb 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405121734
• ISBN 13: 9781405121736
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 244W x 167H x 17D millimeters 244 millimeters width by 167 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 382 grams

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

Jeremy W. Crampton is Associate Professor of Geography at The University of Kentucky, where he teaches GIS, cartography and political geography. He is the author of The Political Mapping of Cyberspace (2003) and Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography (edited with Stuart Elden, 2007), and is the former editor of the journal Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization.