Hi all,
Since GIS and cartography are taught at many polytechnics and universities,
there are lots of good titles to kick-start your self-education.
Geographic Information Systems and Science by Longley, Goodchild,
Maguire,Rhind (eds.)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047087001X/webmapper-20/102-5249676-9592949?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&link%5Fcode=xm2
Cartography: Visualization of Geospatial Data by Kraak and Ormeling
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0130888907/qid=1149931905/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-5249676-9592949?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
Web Cartography by Kraak and Brown
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/074840869X/webmapper-20/102-5249676-9592949
Cartography: Thematic Map Design by Dent
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/069722970X/webmapper-20/102-5249676-9592949
Elements of Cartography by Robinson
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471555797/qid=1149932202/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-5249676-9592949?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
These books cover many basic aspects such as geoids, projections, scale,
data structures, colour theory, generalisation etc. Really, cartography is
not just about old maps. The field of geocomputation is very useful as well.
In "Mastering Algorithms with Perl" (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/maperl/)
there's an excelent chapter on geometric algorithms:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/maperl/chapter/ch10.pdf
Kind regards,
Edward
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From: "Matthew Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Geowanking] [OSM-talk] book recommendation (was: colour fills
inosmarender)
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:21:44 -0700
On 6/9/06, Lars Aronsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can anybody here recommend a useful book on basic data structures
and algorithms for GIS?
Though it is almost all theory with very little practical
instructions, I have found 'Principles of Geographical Information
Systems' by Peter Burrough and Rachel McDonnell
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0198233655/sr=8-1/qid=1149922941/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-7394625-8352158?%5Fencoding=UTF8>
to be a valuable reference when dealing with data structures and GIS
algorithms.
The above reference is mainly GIS and spatial statistics oriented..
there is not much detail about map projections, cartography or
geodesy. I can't recall a single book or source of info that would be
THE definitive reference for such topics. Check Amazon for anything by
John Snyder... his work is highly technical but the best at thoroughly
explaining the details of projections.
--
Matt Perry
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