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Concerning the history and making of pictorial maps, a graphic form found increasingly in today's newspapers, magazines and television reporting, this book includes new Robinson projections that have solved many distortion problems, the computer's role in mapmaking and pictorial symbols. It begins with a history of pictorial maps through the ages, the use of pictorial maps in America, in the world, in war and news coverage and in weather reporting. The second half of the book concetrates on the mapmaking process itself in which Holmes shows how to achieve the various kinds of map projections in the age-old struggle to find a satisfactory way to show the entire surface of a 3-dimensional sphere on a a flat piece of paper. Included are the new Robinson projections that have solved many distortional problems, the computer's role in mapmaking, how to represent mountainous terrain convincingly, pictorial symbols used in maps and how to draw maps for friends.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Color And B/w Illustrations (illustrator). The Herbert Press, 1992. Hardback, d/j, 4to, 191pp, illust. A good copy. 1871569435/1.1uk. Seller Inventory # 382948
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Board. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Holmes, Nigel (illustrator). 1st Edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket of this lavishly illustrated study of pictorial maps. Dust Jacket: pictorial, laminated, with colour map of Europe and black lettering to all faces, all on a white ground; in excellent condition; very clean and bright; no fading; no visible sign of shelf wear not price clipped (now protected). Cover: blue laminated boards with silver lettering to spine; in excellent condition; very clean and bright, no visible signs of shelf wear. Internally: very clean and tightly bound; no inscriptions or book plates; looks unread. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 192 pp. Seller Inventory # 002459