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Web Cartography
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Web Cartography

by Ian Muehlenhaus
December 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
262 pages
8h 5m
English
CRC Press
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98 Web Cartography: Map Design for Interactive and Mobile Devices
mapping on its head. For many GIS (geographic information system) and
map service experts, the goal now is to create a map that mimics reality as
closely as possible so people can make extremely informed decisions about
their environments based on real-time data. As such, tiles of aerial photog-
raphy and satellite imagery with streets and certain landmarks highlighted
are increasingly becoming the default view in Web maps. It is believed that
people will quickly be able to recognize landmarks from satellite imagery
and have a better grasp of locations and spatial relationships ...
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