Key Benefit:
Maps and Web Mapping establishes an innovative, eText-only introduction to the history, principles, and current technologies used in mapping and cartography in a way that's never been done before. Created to work with resources in Mygeoscienceplace.com, this solution engages you with interactive tools, including MapMaster(TM) interactive maps, Google Earth(TM) exercises, lecture videos, Map Projection animations, and more. This affordable online-only solution seamlessly integrates narrative text with a dynamic, interactive media experience, creating a rich learning environment and working together to help you develop spatial reasoning skills and practice observation, experimentation, and critical thinking.
Key Topics: Why Maps?, The Figure of the Earth, Sizing Up Earth, Distorting the Globe, Coordinate Systems and Global Grids, Partitioning the Land, Cartometry: Position and Direction, Cartometry: Lines and Areas, Map Generalization, Positioning, Route Selection and Navigation, Location Based Services and Web Mapping, Mapping the Third Dimension, Representing Terrain with Contours, Landscape Features on Maps, Heights and Height Mapping, Features, Dimensions and Data Levels, Measuring Shape and Distribution, Networks, Special-Purpose Maps, Cartography's Sister Disciplines, Geobrowsing, How to Lie with Maps, Thinking Spatially
Market; Intended for those who wished to gain a basic understanding of cartography.