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Cartography and the Impact of the Quantitative Revolution, Volume 2

By Colette Cauvin , Francisco Escobar , Aziz Serradj(auth.)

Book information

Publisher
ISTE Ltd
ISBN
9781848211117, 9781118558126
DOI
10.1002/9781118558126
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
52 MB (54077089 bytes)
Pages
432\432
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00

Description

This series in three volumes considers maps as constructions resulting from a number of successive transformations and stages integrated in a logical reasoning and an order of choices. Volume 2 focuses on the impact of the quantitative revolution, partially related to the advent of the computer age, on thematic cartography. Content: Chapter 1 From the Description to the Generalization of an Attribute Variable Z (pages 7–75): Chapter 2 Generalization of Thematic Attributes (pages 77–148): Chapter 3 Modeling Thematic Attributes: Generalizable Cartographic Choices (pages 149–214): Chapter 4 Cartographic Transformations of Position (pages 223–276): Chapter 5 Taking a Third Dimension into Account, Transformation of Display (pages 277–349):

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