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Getting to know ArcGIS / Michael Law, Amy Collins

"For ArcGIS 10.2 and 10.3"--Front cover. Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Getting To Know GIS: -- Introducing GIS -- Introducing ArcGIS -- Part 2: Getting Started With Maps And Data: -- ...
Nature

Maps: their Uses and Construction A Short Popular Treatise on the Advantages and Defects of Maps on Various Projections, followed by an Outline of the Principles involved in ...

A BOOK in English on map projections has long been needed, and the present work is a very welcome attempt to meet this need. It may be commended to all who have to deal with geographical questions, ...
Nature

The Theory of Map-Projections, with special reference to the Projections used in the Survey Department

THE subject of map projections is one in which the English language is strangely deficient, a deficiency the more apparent when contrasted with the wealth of Continental literature on the subject.
The Conversation

World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...
The Washington Post

Here’s how Africa wants to redraw the world map

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...