Maps and Measurement (Understanding Maps of Our World)

Cooke, Tim

 
9781433935039: Maps and Measurement (Understanding Maps of Our World)

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This book examines practical mapmaking. Readers will be fascinated with projection, which is the way in which mapmakers reproduce the Earth's three-dimensional features on flat paper. They'll learn how positions are fixed through coordinates of latitude and longitude.

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ISBN 10:  143393504X ISBN 13:  9781433935046
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2010
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