Within geographic information systems (GIS), there are two main ways to model features across space: vectors and rasters. Both types of data models have unique
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Category: Cartography
Cartography is the art and science of map-making.
History of Maps
Ancient Maps Maps are one of the oldest forms of human communication, perhaps even pre-dating the written word. Cave paintings dating back almost 20,000 years
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Map Projections
I remember back in middle school my geography teacher taking an intact orange peel (I still wonder how he was able to remove it in
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Mental Maps
What are mental (or cognitive) maps? When people think of a place, they have a picture in their mind of what it looks like or
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