Maps and Measurement (Understanding Maps of Our World) - Softcover

Cooke, Tim

 
9781433935046: Maps and Measurement (Understanding Maps of Our World)

Synopsis

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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