Map Use: Reading, Analysis, Interpretation

by A. Jon Kimerling, Aileen R. Buckley, Phillip C. Muehrcke, Juliana O. Muehrcke

Overview

Map Use: Reading, Analysis, Interpretation, eighth edition is a comprehensive, foundational textbook designed for the college curriculum. With a section on map interpretation, Map Use provides students with the knowledge and skills to read and understand maps, and offers professional cartographers a thorough reference resource.

Nearly 600 full-color maps, photographs, and graphs illustrate the concepts behind communicating with maps, while PowerPoint slides (available through the book resource page at https://links.esri.com/MapUseSlides) further support use of the text in the classroom.

The book renders basic cartographic principles accessible to all, from students of cartography and map design to those without a formal education in geography. Accommodating new developments in GPS and geographic information system technology, Map Use: Reading, Analysis, Interpretation, eighth edition can serve as an excellent introductory GIS text.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589488410
Publisher:	Esri Press
Publication date:	03/04/2025
Series:	Map Use , #8
Edition description:	Eighth Edition
Pages:	666
Product dimensions:	8.38(w) x 10.88(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

A. Jon Kimerling is professor emeritus of geosciences at Oregon State Universityin Corvallis. He coauthored Elements of Cartography, sixth edition (Wiley, 1995). 
Aileen R. Buckley is a research cartographer for Esri.
Phillip C. Muehrcke is professor emeritus of geography at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Juliana O. Muehrcke is the founding editor of the journal Nonprofit World.

Table of Contents

Part One: Map Reading
        1   The earth and earth coordinates
        2    Map scale
        3    Map projections
        4    Grid coordinate systems
        5     Land partitioning
        6     Relief portrayal
        7     Qualitative thematic maps
        8     Quantitative thematic maps
        9     Image maps
      10     Map accuracy and uncertainty
Part Two: Map Analysis
      11     Distance finding
      12     Direction finding and compasses
      13     Position finding and navigation
      14     GPS and maps
      15     Area and volume measures
      16     Surface analysis
      17     Spatial pattern analysis
      18     Spatial association analysis
Part Three: Map Interpretation
     19     Interpreting the lithosphere
     20     Interpreting the atmosphere and biosphere
     21     Interpreting the human landscape
     22     Maps and reality
Appendix A: Digital cartographic data
Appendix B: Selected navigation and GPS abbreviations and acronyms
Appendix C: Tables
Glossary
Index

Editorial Reviews

As a full course or a series of mini lessons, this book is surely one the reviewer likes having on her shelf and has recommended and will continue to recommend to others. For the expert who is not teaching classes, there are jewels in the book that can simply convey important mapping concepts to build common ground with inquisitive friends, family, or that cross disciplinary colleague who never really thought much more of maps than they are pretty pictures.

—Melissa J. Porterfield, Ph.D.

Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing Vol. 85, No. 4, April 2019, pp. 251–252.

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