Authors: Barbara Taylor
ISBN-13: 9781599200507, ISBN-10: 1599200503
Format: Library Binding
Publisher: Black Rabbit Books
Date Published: August 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
What is a map? 6
How are maps used? 8
Scale 10
Distance 12
Grids 14
Height 16
Symbols 18
Making landscape maps 20
Finding the way 22
Mapping data 24
Weather maps 26
Pictorial maps 28
What is GIS? 30
How is GIS used? 32
Mapping change 34
Latitude and longitude 36
Explaining a round world 38
Round earth, flat maps 40
Where in the world? 42
Glossary 44
Web sites 45
Index 46
Subjects