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Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas

Denis Wood has created an atlas unlike any other. Surveying Boylan Heights, his small neighborhood in North Carolina, he subverts the traditional notions of mapmaking to discover new ways of...More

The Natural Navigator: A Watchful Explorer’s Guide to a Nearly Forgotten Skill

Before GPS, before the compass, and even before cartography, humankind was navigating. A windswept tree, the depth of a puddle, or a trill of birdsong could point the way home—and, for the...More

Classics in Cartography: Reflections on influential articles from Cartographica

Classics in Cartography provides an intellectually driven reinterpretation of a selection of ten touchstone articles in the development of mapping scholarship over the last four decades. The...More

Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know

Atlas of Science, based on the popular exhibit "Places & Spaces: Mapping Science," describes and displays successful mapping techniques. The heart of the book is a visual feast: Claudius...More

Geographic Hypermedia: Concepts and Systems

The book serves as a collection of multi-disciplinary contributions related to Geographic Hypermedia and highlights the technological aspects of GIS. Specifically, it focuses on its database...More

National Geographic Atlas of the World, Ninth Edition

National Geographic Atlas of the World, Ninth Edition showcases the Earth in stunning detail, through a magnificent collection of world, continental, and regional maps that represent...More

From Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association

From Here to There celebrates the ephemeral documents usually forgotten or tossed aside after having served their purpose giving them their due as artifacts representing stories from people's...More

Nov. 15 Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas

What makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San...More

ESRI Map Book, Volume 25

The ESRI Map Book is published annually to showcase the new and innovative ways GIS is used to provide solutions. Presented in full-color, these maps artfully demonstrate how GIS users...More

Algebraic Geodesy and Geoinformatics

The book presents modern and efficient methods for solving Geodetic and Geoinformatics algebraic problems illustrated with Mathematica using computer algebra techniques of Ring, Polynomials,...More

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Towards a Global Licensing Framework for Geospatial Data

Is it time for a global licensing framework for geospatial data? The GSDI Legal and Economic Working group thinks so and offered a presentation and a way forward at the GSDI 13 conference held in Quebec City in May. The effort aims to harmonize existing licensing without changing fundamental access policies and funding models and be compatible with the diferences in national legal systems. That's a tall order, but an important one as the world moves toward geodata sharing. Geoff Zeiss reports.