This manual provides comprehensive guidance for users interested in electronic cartography and visualizing geographic data. It covers a wide range of techniques and tools, focusing on integrating geographic data into custom maps, interpreting and manipulating cartography data, incorporating personal photo galleries into maps, and practical uses for GPS devices. The content is designed for developers and power users, emphasizing mostly free methods and drawing from public mapping data to enhance digital mapping capabilities.
The purpose of this manual is to serve as an authoritative resource for understanding and implementing advanced cartographic techniques. It details over 100 practical methods and explores various facets of digital mapping, including site design and online services. This guide is essential for anyone seeking to master the creation and manipulation of digital maps, offering insights and actionable advice to achieve sophisticated results in geographic data visualization.
Since the dawn of creation, man has designed maps to help identify the space that we occupy. From Lewis and Clark's pencil-sketched maps of mountain trails to Jacques Cousteau's sophisticated charts of the ocean floor, creating maps of the utmost precision has been a constant pursuit. So why should things change now?Well, they shouldn't. The reality is that map creation, or "cartography," has only improved in its ease-of-use over time. In fact, with the recent explosion of inexpensive computing and the growing availability of public mapping data, mapmaking today extends all the way to the ordinary PC user.Mapping Hacks, the latest page-turner from O'Reilly Press, tackles this notion head on. It's a collection of one hundred simple--and mostly free--techniques available to developers and power users who want draw digital maps or otherwise visualize geographic data. Authors Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, and Jo Walsh do more than just illuminate the basic concepts of location and cartography, they walk you through the process one step at a time.Mapping Hacks shows you where to find the best sources of geographic data, and then how to integrate that data into your own map. But that's just an appetizer. This comprehensive resource also shows you how to interpret and manipulate unwieldy cartography data, as well as how to incorporate personal photo galleries into your maps. It even provides practical uses for GPS (Global Positioning System) devices--those touch-of-a-button street maps integrated into cars and mobile phones. Just imagine: If Captain Kidd had this technology, we'd all know where to find his buried treasure!With all of these industrial-strength tips and tools, Mapping Hacks effectively takes the sting out of the digital mapmaking and navigational process. Now you can create your own maps for business, pleasure, or entertainment--without ever having to sharpen a single pencil.
Author: Erle, Schuyler
Author: Gibson, Rich
Author: Walsh, Jo
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: Mapping Hacks: Tips & Tools for Electronic Cartography
Pages: 00568 (Encrypted EPUB) / 00564 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2015-11-04
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780596007034
Lib Category: Digital mapping
Lib Category: Digital mapping Digital mapping
Category: Computers : Web - Site Design
Category: Reference : Atlases & Gazetteers
Category: Computers : Online Services - General
Since the dawn of creation, man has designed maps to help identify the space that we occupy. From Lewis and Clark's pencil-sketched maps of mountain trails to Jacques Cousteau's sophisticated charts of the ocean floor, creating maps of the utmost precision has been a constant pursuit. So why should things change now?Well, they shouldn't. The reality is that map creation, or "cartography," has only improved in its ease-of-use over time. In fact, with the recent explosion of inexpensive computing and the growing availability of public mapping data, mapmaking today extends all the way to the ordinary PC user.Mapping Hacks, the latest page-turner from O'Reilly Press, tackles this notion head on. It's a collection of one hundred simple--and mostly free--techniques available to developers and power users who want draw digital maps or otherwise visualize geographic data. Authors Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, and Jo Walsh do more than just illuminate the basic concepts of location and cartography, they walk you through the process one step at a time.Mapping Hacks shows you where to find the best sources of geographic data, and then how to integrate that data into your own map. But that's just an appetizer. This comprehensive resource also shows you how to interpret and manipulate unwieldy cartography data, as well as how to incorporate personal photo galleries into your maps. It even provides practical uses for GPS (Global Positioning System) devices--those touch-of-a-button street maps integrated into cars and mobile phones. Just imagine: If Captain Kidd had this technology, we'd all know where to find his buried treasure!With all of these industrial-strength tips and tools, Mapping Hacks effectively takes the sting out of the digital mapmaking and navigational process. Now you can create your own maps for business, pleasure, or entertainment--without ever having to sharpen a single pencil.
Author: Erle, Schuyler
Author: Gibson, Rich
Author: Walsh, Jo
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: Mapping Hacks: Tips & Tools for Electronic Cartography
Pages: 00568 (Encrypted EPUB) / 00564 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2015-11-04
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780596007034
Lib Category: Digital mapping
Lib Category: Digital mapping Digital mapping
Category: Computers : Web - Site Design
Category: Reference : Atlases & Gazetteers
Category: Computers : Online Services - General
