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Do at least study the exercises. Remember: No one expects a guitarist to learn to play by …

Contemporary cartographic research on mapmaking and map use has a broad mandate
and, as a consequence, researchers need a broad suite of methods. Consistent with …

This article examines changes in the design of thematic maps in two geographical journals
(the Annals of the Association of American Geographers and The Geographical Journal) …

In Chap. 21, we already transformed from a global three-dimensional geodetic network into
a regional or local geodetic network. We aimed at the analysis of datum parameters, namely …

This dissertation reports the results of an empirical study designed to examine how experts
use maps in conjunction with other statistical graphics to think about the problem of …

This study represents an investigation into understanding the variation in bus map design
and the impact of map design preferences in public transportation information portrayal. In …

Conventionally, conformal coordinates, also called conformal charts, representing the
surface of the Earth or any other Planet as an ellipsoid-of-revolution, also called the …

Cylindrical projections in the oblique aspect are mainly used to display regions which have
a predominant extent in the oblique direction, neither East-West nor North-South. In addition …

Among cylindrical projections, mappings in the transverse aspect play the most important
role. Although many worldwide adopted legal map projections use the ellipsoid-of-revolution …

Harmonic maps are a certain kind of an optimal map projection which has been developed
for map projections of the sphere. Here we generalize it to the “ellipsoid of revolution”. The …