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Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Cartography, geodesy & geographic information systems (GIS) > Map making & projections
Since then new texts have appeared (such as the Artemidoros
palimpsest), and new editions of existing texts (by geographical
authorities who include Agatharchides, Eratosthenes, Pseudo-Skylax
and Strabo) have been produced. There has been much archaeological
research, especially at the perimeters of the Greek world, and a
more accurate understanding of ancient geography and geographers
has emerged. The topic is therefore overdue a fresh and sustained
treatment. In offering precisely that, Duane Roller explores
important topics like knowledge of the world in the Bronze Age and
Archaic periods; Greek expansion into the Black Sea and the West;
the Pythagorean concept of the earth as a globe; the invention of
geography as a discipline by Eratosthenes; Polybios the explorer;
Strabo's famous Geographica; the travels of Alexander the Great;
Roman geography; Ptolemy and late antiquity; and the cultural
reawakening of antique geographical knowledge in the Renaissance,
including Columbus' use of ancient sources.
Over 35 recipes to design and implement uniquely styled maps using
the Mapbox platform About This Book * Design and develop
beautifully styled maps using TileMill, MapBox Studio, and CartoCSS
* Get to grips with the mapbox.js and Leaflet to create visually
stunning web and mobile applications * An easy-to-follow, quick
reference guide to integrate powerful APIs and services like
Foursquare, Fusion Tables, Geoserver, and CartoDB to populate your
maps Who This Book Is For If you are a web developer seeking for
GIS expertise on how to create, style, and publish interactive and
unique styled maps, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of
programming and javascripts is assumed. What You Will Learn * Get
accustomed to the MapBox Editor to visually style your maps * Learn
everything about CartoCSS, and how it will help you fine tune your
styled maps * Use MapBox Studio and Tilemill to generate your own
tiles and vector maps * Publish your maps using a variety of
technologies like node.js, PHP, and Geoserver * Integrate with
third party APIs and services to populate your maps with public or
private data * Create many different map visualization styles like
choropleth and heat maps, add interactivity, and even learn how to
animate data over time * Work with many different data formats and
external services to create robust maps * Learn to use MapBox GL to
create a mobile application In Detail Maps are an essential element
in today's location aware applications. Right from displaying earth
surface information to creating thematic maps displaying plethora
of information, most of the developers lack the necessary knowledge
to create customizable maps with combination of various tools and
libraries. The MapBox platform is one such platform which offers
all the tools and API required to create and publish a totally
customizable map. Starting with building your first map with the
online MapBox Editor, we will take you all the way to building
advanced web and mobile applications with totally customizable map
styles. Through the course of chapters we'll learn CartoCSS styling
language and understand the various components of MapBox platform
and their corresponding JavaScript API. In the initial few chapters
we will dive deeper into the TileMill and MapBox Studio components
of MapBox and use them to generate custom styled map tiles and
vector maps. Furthermore, we will publish these custom maps using
PHP, node.js and third party tools like Geoserver. We'll also learn
to create different visualizations and map styles like a choropleth
map, a heat map and add user interactivity using a UFTGrid. Moving
on, we dive into advanced concepts and focus on integration with
third party services like Foursquare, Google FusionTables, CartoDB,
and Torque to help you populate and even animate your maps. In the
final chapter we'll learn to use the Mapbox SDK to create and
publish interactive maps for the iOS platform. By the end of this
book, you will learn about MapBox GL and how to create a fully
functional, location-aware mobile app, using the maps styles
created in the recipes. Style and approach An easy-to-use recipe
driven book that will not just serve code samples, but also
explains all the theory and concepts required to fully understand
each recipe.
The nineteenth century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious
geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal
Chorographic Commission of Colombia, which began in 1850 and lasted
about a decade, was one of Latin America's most extensive. The
commission's mandate was to define and map the young republic and
its resources with an eye toward modernization. In this history of
the commission, Nancy Appelbaum focuses on the geographers'
fieldwork practices and visual production as the men traversed the
mountains, savannahs, and forests of more than thirty provinces in
order to delineate the country's territorial and racial
composition. Their assumptions and methods, Appelbaum argues,
contributed to a long-lasting national imaginary. What jumps out of
the commission's array of reports, maps, sketches, and paintings is
a portentous tension between the marked differences that appeared
before the eyes of the geographers in the field and the visions of
sameness to which they aspired. The commissioners and their patrons
believed that a prosperous republic required a unified and racially
homogeneous population, but the commission's maps and images
paradoxically emphasized diversity and helped create a ""country of
regions."" By privileging the whiter inhabitants of the cool Andean
highlands over those of the boiling tropical lowlands, the
commission left a lasting but problematic legacy for today's
Colombians.
Considered a wonder of the ancient world, the Newark Earthworks?the
gigantic geometrical mounds of earth built nearly two thousand
years ago in the Ohio valley--have been a focal point for
archaeologists and surveyors, researchers and scholars for almost
two centuries. In their prime one of the premier pilgrimage
destinations in North America, these monuments are believed to have
been ceremonial centers used by ancestors of Native Americans,
called the ""Hopewell culture,"" as social gathering places,
religious shrines, pilgrimage sites, and astronomical
observatories. Yet much of this territory has been destroyed by the
city of Newark, and the site currently ""hosts"" a private golf
course, making it largely inaccessible to the public. The first
book-length volume devoted to the site, The Newark Earthworks
reveals the magnitude and the geometric precision of what remains
of the earthworks and the site's undeniable importance to our
history. Including contributions from archaeologists, historians,
cultural geographers, and cartographers, as well as scholars in
religious studies, legal studies, indigenous studies, and
preservation studies, the book follows an interdisciplinary
approach to shine light on the Newark Earthworks and argues
compellingly for its designation as a World Heritage Site.
"ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING "charts the ascendancy of mapping as a
powerful interdisciplinary strategy, one that links people and
places, data and organizations, and physical and virtual
environments. Traditionally written by history's victors, maps are
gaining new currency in our information-saturated age as a means of
making arguments and processes visible. Mapping technologies today
are as diverse as the agendas driving them: social networks are
mapped with dynamic digital interfaces; buildings are mapped with
lasers; cities and regions are mapped by satellite.
Illustrated with nearly 300 images, from archival woodcuts to
Web-based maps and GPS drawings, "ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING" explores how
cartographic techniques are being adapted to map the emerging
landscapes of electronic communication. It showcases cutting-edge
projects in graphic and industrial design, art, architecture, and
technology by an international roster of writers, artists, and
designers at the forefront of locative media practice. "
ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING" proposes--by visual example and written
analysis--that mapping is a fundamental design process that
increasingly shapes the physical and conceptual dimensions of
contemporary society.
Deborah Littlejohn (designer) is design fellow at the University of
Minnesota Design Institute.
Distributed for the University of Minnesota Design Institute by the
University of Minnesota Press.
The Charter of the United Nations was signed in 1945 by 51
countries representing all continents, paving the way for the
creation of the United Nations on 24 October 1945. The Statute of
the International Court of Justice forms part of the Charter. The
aim of the Charter is to save humanity from war; to reaffirm human
rights and the dignity and worth of the human person; to proclaim
the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small;
and to promote the prosperity of all humankind. The Charter is the
foundation of international peace and security.
This book shows you how to use a GPS and Google Earth to create
simple and expressive maps to share on the web like the one shown
on the cover. With a reading time of a mere 10 hours you will learn
to work with a GPS without making mistakes, to use it with Google
Earth including in areas without internet access and to quickly
create diverse interactive maps that other people can see and
modify over the internet without the need for experts or
unnecessary complications. Even though it has been written in the
context of Relief and Development work, the same process is valid
for whatever other application.
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