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How Maps Work: Representation, Visualization, and Design
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How Maps Work: Representation, Visualization, and Design Hardcover - 1995 - 1st Edition

by MacEachren, Alan M

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New York: The Guilford Press, 1995. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. ISBN: 0-89862-589-0 Very little wear; slight bump to front bottom corner. Text is clean. 'This book is the first systematic integration of cognitive and semiotic approaches to understanding maps as powerful, abstract, and synthetic spatial representations. Presenting a perspective built on four decades of cartographic research, along with research from other areas, it explores how maps work at multiple levels.' 513 pages..
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  • Title How Maps Work: Representation, Visualization, and Design
  • Author MacEachren, Alan M
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 513
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The Guilford Press, New York
  • Date 1995
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 023084
  • ISBN 9780898625899 / 0898625890
  • Weight 1.98 lbs (0.90 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.34 x 6.34 x 1.52 in (23.72 x 16.10 x 3.86 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Cartography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94031138
  • Dewey Decimal Code 526

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This book is the first systematic integration of cognitive and semiotic approaches to understanding maps as powerful, abstract, and synthetic spatial representations. Presenting a perspective built on four decades of cartographic research, along with research from other areas, it explores how maps work at multiple levels - from the individual to societal - and provides a cohesive picture of how the many representational choices inherent in mapping interact with the processing of information construction of knowledge. Utilizing this perspective, the author shows how the insights derived from a better understanding of maps can be used in future map design. Although computers now provide the graphic tools to produce maps of similar or better quality than those produced by previous manual techniques, they seldom incorporate the conceptual tools needed to make informed symbolization and design decisions. The search for these conceptual tools is the basis for How Maps Work.

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About the author

Alan M. MacEachren is currently Professor of Geography and Director of the GeoVISTA Center at The Pennsylvania State University. In addition to researching cognitive and semiotic aspects of how maps work, he is active in the development of interactive systems for geographic visualization and in understanding and enabling group work with geospatial information and technologies. He is the author of [i]Some Truth with Maps[/i] and coeditor of [i]Visualization in Modern Cartography[/i].

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