Interactive and Animated Cartography - Michael P. Peterson

Interactive and Animated Cartography

Buch | Softcover
464 Seiten
1995
Pearson (Verlag)
978-0-13-079104-7 (ISBN)
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Provides introduction to advances in computer-aided map-making technology - the Cartography - in which maps narrate, cartographic symbols move, and displays reveal relevant information when the viewer clicks on them in selected places. This book explains ideas, and offers experience-tested insights about why maps work.
For any cartography course using computers.

This text provides an accessible, detailed introduction to recent advances in computer-aided map-making technology — the New Cartography — in which maps narrate, cartographic symbols move, and displays reveal relevant information when the viewer clicks on them in selected places. It explains timely new ideas, offers experience-tested insights about why maps work, highlights ways of using the computer to communicate information with maps, and shows how to design them.

I. MAPS, MEDIUM AND THE MIND.

 1. Maps and the Changing Medium.
 2. The Human Geographic Information System.
 3. Maps for the Mind.
II. THE TOOLS OF INTERACTIVE AND ANIMATED CARTOGRAPHY.

 4. Computer Mapping.
 5. Graphic Processing.
 6. Multimedia and Hypermedia.
 7. Multimedia and Hypermedia.
 8. Computer Animation.
 9. Scripting and Programming.
III. APPLYING THE TOOLS: EXAMPLES OF INTERACTIVE AND ANIMATED MAPS.

10. The Interactive Map.
11. The Animated Map.
12. Frontier.
Appendix A: Introduction to Programming.
Appendix B: Software Vendors.
Appendix C: Internet.
Appendix D: Other Sources of Software.
Appendix E: Sources for Maps and Imagery.
Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.5.1995
Sprache englisch
Maße 182 x 242 mm
Gewicht 687 g
Themenwelt Informatik Weitere Themen CAD-Programme
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10 0-13-079104-0 / 0130791040
ISBN-13 978-0-13-079104-7 / 9780130791047
Zustand Neuware
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