Principles of Cartography 21st Century University Textbook

Author: Ma Yaofeng Hu Wenliang
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Publish Date: 2004-06-02
Features: This book comprehensively and systematically introduces the essence of maps, as well as the theories, techniques, and methods of mapmaking and map use. The main content includes a brief history of cartography and modern cartographic theory, the three fundamental characteristics of mathematical foundations, symbol systems, and map generalization, the two major types of maps—general maps and thematic maps, modern cartographic technologies, and map applications. As the foundation and presentation platform for RS, GPS, GIS, and digital earth, this book emphasizes its theoretical and technical aspects, serving to cultivate readers' spatial thinking and graphic reasoning abilities. This book can be used as a textbook for university majors such as geography, GIS, surveying and mapping, resource environment and urban-rural planning management, geology, resource exploration engineering, forestry, urban planning, environment, architecture, tourism management, landscape architecture, and ecology. It can also serve as a reference for science and technology professionals in the aforementioned fields.