Overview
- Offers a guide to selecting map projections for non-technical users
- Provides access to professional methods from experts in map projections
- Addresses issues of importance to the burgeoning geospatial Web market
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (LNGC)
Part of the book sub series: Publications of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) (ICA)
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This book offers a much-needed critical approach to the intelligent use of the wide variety of map projections that are rapidly and inexpensively available today. It also discusses the distortions that are immanent in any map projection.
A well-chosen map projection is one in which extreme distortions are smaller than those in any other projection used to map the same area and in which the map properties match its purpose. Written by leading experts in the field, including W. Tobler, F.C. Kessler, S.E. Battersby, M.P. Finn, K.C. Clarke, V.S. Tikunov, H. Hargitai, B. Jenny and N. Frančula. This book is designed for use by laymen.
The book editors are M. Lapaine and E.L. Usery, Chair and Vice-Chair, respectively, of the ICA Commission on Map Projections for the period 2011-2015.
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Choosing a Map Projection
Editors: Miljenko Lapaine, E. Lynn Usery
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51835-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51834-3Published: 11 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84753-5Published: 18 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51835-0Published: 04 April 2017
Series ISSN: 1863-2246
Series E-ISSN: 1863-2351
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 360
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations, 205 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Human Geography