Mapping Hacks Tips & Tools for Electronic Cartography

By Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, Jo Walsh
Book Price: $29.95 USD
£20.95 GBP
PDF Price: $23.99

Cover | Table of Contents | Colophon

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Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The tool on the cover of Mapping Hacks is a compass. Used since the eleventh century as a navigation device, the compass consists of a magnetized needle stabilized on a friction-free pivot point. The lightweight needle acts as a detector for Earth's magnetic field, which attracts the needle such that its north end points toward the North Pole. Contemporary mariners often deploy the more sophisticated gyrocompass for navigation, which uses a spinning wheel constrained by the forces of friction to orient itself toward the North Pole. The gyrocompass is considered superior to its magnetic counterpart because it relies solely on Earth's rotation for its readings and thus always locates True North, as opposed to Magnetic North. Sanders Kleinfeld was the production editor and copyeditor for Mapping Hacks. Linley Dolby was the proofreader. Adam Witwer and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. John Bickelhaupt wrote the index.

Hanna Dyer designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is from photos.com. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with Adobe InDesign CS using Adobe's Helvetica Neue and ITC Garamond fonts.

David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Joe Wizda to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Helvetica Neue Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand MX and Adobe Photoshop CS. This colophon was written by Sanders Kleinfeld.

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