June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
568 pages
24h 7m
English
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Index
Numbers
2-D barcodes, 476
3-D raytracing software (see POV-Ray)
3DEM, 230
terrain models, rendering in three
dimensions, 235
93 Photo Street, 28–32
A
aerial photographs
DOQ images, 469
GeoTIFF, 470
specific locations, finding on
Terraserver, 14–16
affine transformations, 487
matrix, 158
airline flight tracking, 32
Albers Equal-Area Conic
projection, 131
annealing, 25
antipodes, mapping of, 98–99
AskTheSpider, xxvii, 436
Azimuthal Equidistant projection, 128
azimuthal projections, 127–130
B
ballistic navigation, 62
barcodes, using for
warchalking, 475–478
2-D barcodes, 476
generating barcodes, 476
BIL format, 372
bnodes, 507
boomzoom.cgi, 62
bounding boxes, 416, 455
broadcast transmitters, locating, 75
C
campaign contributions,
mapping, 65–68
campaign finance web sites, 65, 66
car computers, 279
building, 278–289
displays, 281
GPS units, connecting to, 282
GUI displays, 284–289
NMEA protocol, 282
uses, 280
VIA motherboards, 281
car navigation systems, building (see
GpsDrive)
car sickness and route planning, 25–28
cartographic distortion, 120
cartographic generalization, 22
cartographic projections, 120–135
azimuthal projections, 127–130
conic projections, 130–133
cylindrical projections, 122–127
Dymaxion projection, 148–151
Equidistant Cylindrical (Plate Carrée)
projection, 126, 136
Generic Mapping Tools (see GMT)
Mercator projection, ...
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