Картография — наука об исследовании, моделировании и отображении пространственного расположения, сочетания и взаимосвязи объектов, явлений природы и общества. В более широкой трактовке картография включает технологию и производственную деятельность.Объектами картографии являются Земля, небесные тела, звёздное небо и Вселенная. Наиболее популярными плодами картографии являются образно-знаковые модели пространства в виде: плоских карт, рельефных и объёмных карт, глобусов. Они могут быть представлены на твёрдых, плоских или объёмных материалах (бумага, пластик) или в виде изображения на видеомониторе.
The Experiment, 2024. — 711 р. — ISBN 978-1-89101-157-3 A fascinating and surprising history of the world told through the lines people have drawn on maps People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2012 — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-0007404520 (ebook). A vivid description of one of the most ambitious scientific projects undertaken in the 19th century, and the men who undertook the measurement of the Himalayas and the mapping of the Indian subcontinent: William Lambton and George Everest. The graphic story of the measurement of a meridian, or longitudinal,...
Ivy Press, 2024. — 440 р. — ISBN 978-0-7112-9353-3 Turn the pages of this thought-provoking book, and discover maps that challenge conventional wisdom, confront social and political norms and offer fresh perspectives on familiar landscapes. This meticulously curated selection of 40 maps spans the ages, from ancient parchment scrolls to cutting-edge digital creations. Each map...
DK Children, 2024. — 515 p. — ISBN: 978-0-2416-3492-9P Dive back in time to discover the unbelievable stories of the past through an exciting new map-view of world history. Explore more than 200 vibrant maps showing the history of every continent in this gripping new view of world history for children aged 9-12. History as it Happened breaks down history into simple, manageable...
Springer, 2019. — 361 р. — ISBN: 978-3-319-62848-8. This book approaches geological, geomorphological and topographical mapping from the point in the workflow at which science-ready datasets are available. Though there have been many individual projects on dynamic maps and online GISs, in which coding and data processing are given precedence over cartographic principles,...
The MIT Press, 2017. — 288 p. Digital practices in social and political landscapes: Why two researchers can look at the same feature and see different things. Maps are widely believed to be objective, and data-rich computer-made maps are iconic examples of digital knowledge. It is often claimed that digital maps, and rational boundaries, can solve political conflict. But in...
Disruption Books, 2019. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-1633310322 (print), ISBN: 978-1633310339 (ebook). As a young man living in rural Kansas in the 1940s, Charles Novak took a job with the federal government—not because he liked the work but because he heard it paid well. That job shaped his life in ways he could never have imagined. As a surveyor for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic...
Учебное пособие. — М.: МИИГАиК, 2008. — 68 с. Учебное пособие разработано в соответствии с программой дисциплин «Оформление карт и картографическое черчение», «Типографика». Учебное пособие содержит сведения о компьютерных шрифтах, разъяснение терминологии, используемой в картографии, типографике, полиграфии, а также 10 упражнений по освоению программы Macromedia Fontographer»....
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