eugene@nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) (04/09/91)
A LOT of people are asking me for an introductory reference on cartography. 1) TO tell you the truth, it's been about 10 years since I had my cartography classes and was working for JPL (imaging radar). My suggestion is to check the references at the end of the "How-To" book (it's cheap, you can afford to 'throw away' $13). I spend my time now benchmarking (an application of visualization) and I've not even been able to read comp.benchmarking for over a week. I read this because a) I ran the Bay Area ACM/SIGGRAPH group, and b) helped to start it's Technical Interest Group in SV. 2) If you absolutely need a reference, you should understand my bias is toward remote sensing and image processing. The book I recommend as a start is aerial photography based, but also has applications in other areas. That book is Paul Wolf's Elements of Photogrammetry. I found this a good simple book with application as well to X-ray photogrammetry, etc. The book is about how contour maps are made (obviously you need some math, the book is 50% trig). It is my opinion this is the direction "visualization" will go whether you understand why or not. It's quantitative, and potentially predictive (e.g., "based on the mass & volume of material, determine the force of the St.Helens eruption." simple observation won't tell you that, and that is what gets published.). Mark Levoy seemed very interested when I show him my copy of Wolf, and my copy is currently in the hands of RS/6000 people at TJW. Also try library searches using "surveying." Back to benchmarking. --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov Resident Cynic, Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers {uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugene
slamont@network.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) (04/11/91)
In article <1991Apr8.173634.15135@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes: >A LOT of people are asking me for an introductory reference on cartography. An *excellent* reference is _Map Projections -- A Working Manual_, US Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395, by John P. Snyder, available from the Superintendent of Documents, US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. The Superintendent of Documents number is I 19.16:1395. It is $20.00 according to the sticker on the inside of my (well, actually the Navy's) copy. This has *everything* that you might want to know to get started in fiddling with map projections, including satellit tracks, etc. spl (the p stands for polar stereographic projection) -- Steve Lamont, SciViGuy -- (408) 646-2752 -- a guest at network.ucsd.edu -- NPS Confuser Center / Code 51 / Naval Postgraduate School / Monterey, CA 93943 "The only way to deal with exploiters is to terrorize the bastards." - The late Congressmember Phillip Burton
robeson@brahms.udel.edu (Scott M Robeson) (04/11/91)
A few more that are readily available in most university libraries: o Richardus, P. and R. Adler (1972) "Map Projections," North-Holland. o Pearson, F. (1990) "Map Projections, Theory and Applications," CRC Press.