Mapping the World by Heart Lite 7th Edition

Mapping the World by Heart Lite 7th Edition
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Not good for our homeschool.

Needs more help with implementation

good program, but not complete

The cure for America's Geographically Illiterate Youth

Amazing Results

Mapping the World by Heart Lite 7th Edition
David Smith
Manufacturer: Tom Snyder Productions
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Ring-bound
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ASIN: 1590093836

Book Description

Grades 5 - 12

Can your students draw detailed maps without an atlas?

They can now! Perform a miracle with Mapping the World by Heart. It's a complete and proven approach to teaching geography. You'll see the most amazing results! Picture your students confidently penciling in the countries of central Africa, the expanse of the Rocky Mountains, and the nations of Southeast Asia. All by heart. As seen on NBC and in Time magazine! The stunning results of David Smith's curriculum were featured on NBC's Today show, in Time magazine, and in newspapers across the country. Now you can get the same results in your classroom!

What's Included

Comprehensive Teacher's Guide, detailed lesson plans, reproducibles, and blank outline maps. Mapping the World by Heart Lite includes master outline maps (one for each of the 9 world regions).

Customer Reviews:

Not good for our homeschool. .......2007-10-16

The program comes with a set of large maps but they are too big for my home printer. I had to pay to make copies. I could have ordered them from the publisher but they come in sets of 30 (or so) of one particular map. It would be good if it was possible to order sets like the sample set.

The maps are very hard to use. We tried to outline and label the counties of Asia and found it almost impossible to locate countries because rivers are included on the maps and they muddle the borders. It's good to learn where the rivers are but not at the expense of learning where the country is.

In one of the lessons a grid is draw on a map and then (to scale) a grid is to be draw on the playground. The students are then to transfer the small map to the large one. We're rural and don't have any place that we could use to re-create this lesson. I'm sure if this was the only problem with mapping the world by heart I would find a solution but it's not.

I wish I had known the extent of extra maps that are needed for this program. Maps are not cheap and some are hard to find. We only have dial up available to us so using the internet is limited.

Although, we don't plan to compete in any geography bees we are using The Geography Bee Complete Preparation Handbook to help guide us in learning geography. I also bought some map software so I can print all the maps we need. It's not perfect but it's much better than Mapping the World by Heart.

Needs more help with implementation.......2007-09-28

First of all, the enclosed video with this product is really more of a promo; it helps very little with using the course.

Secondly, the written material is put together like a menu. The "appetizers" are some fun and easily implementable activities to help kids gain an overview of geographic concepts.

The "desserts" are different ways to output the learned material.

However the "main course" in which I expected to learn HOW to teach my kids to "map the world by heart" was nothing but a list of the continents and all the countries and landforms that need to be memorized. I was looking to this course to teach me HOW to teach my kids to "map the world by heart" but all it showed me was the WHAT. It, unfortunately, was a waste of money.

good program, but not complete.......2007-09-10

I bought this program because of rave reviews I had read. The intro video is very impressive, which features the teacher who created the program and his 7th grade class. It will motivate you to teach your student(s) geography.
However, when I started to use the program, it was not complete. It assumes you already have some idea of what you want to teach, and it gives you enrichment ideas to teach in creative ways. I am only starting the program, so I will get back to you when I have used it more. However, I did feel I had to purchase additional materials to teach concepts that were involved in certain introductory exercises in the book.
I think the program might be ideal for school teachers; for home educating parents, they may need supplemental materials to help them out.

The cure for America's Geographically Illiterate Youth.......2006-09-22

I am a 7th grade teacher from Madison Wisconsin. I have used this program for 12 years. I teach about 150 kids each school year and all of them, from the very brightest to the very lowest ability children, learn it in their own right. We practice one continent at a time and learn mnemonic devices to reinforce newly acquired knowledge. For example, the phrase "Cute James Hates Doing Puzzles" represents the Caribbean Islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico in order from west to east. The word "BASMOQN" represents the lower Canadian provinces in order from west to east: British Colombia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland. I show the students how to draw each region and we practice, practice, practice. When I feel they're ready, I test them on each region by asking them to draw it "by heart" on their posters with nothing more available to them than a list of the correct spellings of the names of countries, provinces, and water bodies. The finished product-a big map of the world drawn by each student from memory, is truly breathtaking and every year parents and students who've had older siblings come through my class tell me that they "still have their map". I highly recommend this program.

Amazing Results.......2003-05-16

I used this curriculum with a homeschool co-op. I taught twelve children ranging from grades 4-12. Our "before" world maps from memory hardly contained any information and very unusual continent shapes and locations, even the one done by grades 9-12.
As we mapped and labeled each continent, we also did a study of the history and culture of the countries in each continent. Every week, each student researched a different area of each culture and gave oral presentations in class.(these ideas/activities are given in the curriculum.) Our end of year maps from memory are the best endorsement I could give. I wish you could see them. The continents were accurately drawn and 70 to 80 percent of the details like landforms, political divisions and capital cities were included. Our best map was completed by a 6th grader who was able to list every single item on the "mapping the world by heart list" given in the curriculum. There is some teacher preparation in doing extra activities recommended in the curriculum. My only complaint was that the map sheets were not available in smaller quantities so we had to come up with our own outline maps to label. I highly recommend that every student be required to complete this curriculum before reaching highschool. My history class no longer has to ask "Where is that?"

Mapping the World: An Illustrated History of Cartography

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Cartography
Mapping the World
Recommend for any serious world history collection, from the high school level on up
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Mapping the World: An Illustrated History of Cartography
Ralph E Ehrenberg
Manufacturer: National Geographic
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ASIN: 0792265254
Release Date: 2005-10-11

Book Description

Mapping the World is a one-of-a-kind collection of cartographic treasures that spans thousands of years and many cultures, from an ancient Babylonian map of the world etched on clay to the latest high-tech maps of the earth, seas, and the skies above. With more than one hundred maps and other illustrations and an introduction and running commentary by Ralph E. Ehrenberg, this book tells a fascinating story of geographic discovery, scientific invention, and the art and technique of mapmaking.

Mapping the World is organized chronologically with a brief introduction that places the maps in their historical context. Special "portfolios" within each section feature key cartographic innovators and maps of exceptional artistic quality or significance, such as the 1507 Waldseemüller Map, the first to use the name America. Unusual and surprising maps are also presented, including a set of playing cards that contained a secret escape map for American prisoners in Germany during World War II.

With its broad historical and cultural range, unmatched variety of maps from the finest map collections in the world, more than one hundred illustrations, and a fresh and authoritative perspective on the history of cartography, Mapping the World will delight everyone with an interest in maps and mapmaking like no other book on the subject.

Customer Reviews:

Cartography.......2007-04-11

A must have book for anyone that loves the history of maps and how they have changed during time.

Mapping the World.......2006-08-28

Stunning pictures, brilliant descriptions and text that is relevant, readable and informative.

Recommend for any serious world history collection, from the high school level on up.......2006-01-04

Mapping The World: An Illustrated History Of Cartography comes from one of the major publishers specializing in geography subjects: so one would anticipate an exceptional production in book form - and it's not disappointing. Author Ralph Ehrenberg is former chief of the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress, among other major archives: his background lends to a lovely coverage of over a hundred maps from around the world and across the eras. Each full-page color maps is accompanied by a detailed history and explanation setting the map in social and historical perspective. Recommend for any serious world history collection, from the high school level on up.

And in this corner..........2005-12-21

Two very fine and beautiful books about maps appeared at the end of 2005, published within a month of each other. The other one is "The Map Book" edited by Peter Barber. I happened to discover "The Map Book" before "Mapping the World", although the latter was published first. Like "The Map Book", "Mapping the World" has at its center beautifully reproduced maps in chronological order with lively and informative texts and explanations. Unlike "The Map Book", "Mapping the World" has a single author of the texts, giving the latter a more unified voice and a greater sense of historical narrative. The curious reader may delve deeper into either book on any page and become engaged in the history, culture, and technology embodied in a particular map. Both books sit on my coffee table both for easy access and conspicuous display.

Global Shift, Fifth Edition: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy (Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours)

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Excellent

Global Shift, Fifth Edition: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy (Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours)
Peter Dicken
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Now in a substantially revised and updated fifth edition, this bestselling work is the definitive text on globalization. Peter Dicken provides a comprehensive, balanced yet critical account of globalization processes and their sweeping, highly uneven effects on people's lives. Each timely chapter has been extensively rewritten to reflect current globalization and antiglobalization debates, the latest empirical developments, and new ideas about the shaping and reshaping of production, distribution, and consumption in the world economy.

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*An entirely new case study on the agro-foods industries
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*All statistical materials have been updated and are presented in nearly 250 specially designed figures and tables

For optimal utility in teaching, all of the figures and tables are available online as PowerPoint slides.

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Excellent.......2007-07-13

This is the ultimate summarization of globalization. It is thorough, objective, and is able to avoid all the inaccurate hype attached to the topic. It is heavy reading, very information based, but I enjoyed it immensely and suggest it for anyone seeking to understand globalization.

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Good information that's out of date
Valuable content from all perspectives
VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
Where are the basics?
DIY Cartography

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Want to find every pizza place within a 15-mile radius? Where the dog parks are in a new town? The most central meeting place for your class, club or group of friends? The cheapest gas stations on a day-to-day basis? The location of convicted sex offenders in an area to which you may be considering moving? The applications, serendipitous and serious, seem to be infinite, as developers find ever more creative ways to add to and customize the satellite images and underlying API of Google Maps.

Written by Schuyler Erle and Rich Gibson, authors of the popular Mapping Hacks, Google Maps Hacks shares dozens of tricks for combining the capabilities of Google Maps with your own datasets. Such diverse information as apartment listings, crime reporting or flight routes can be integrated with Google's satellite imagery in creative ways, to yield new and useful applications.

The authors begin with a complete introduction to the "standard" features of Google Maps. The adventure continues with 60 useful and interesting mapping projects that demonstrate ways developers have added their own features to the maps. After that's given you ideas of your own, you learn to apply the techniques and tools to add your own data to customize and manipulate Google Maps. Even Google seems to be tacitly blessing what might be seen as unauthorized use, but maybe they just know a good thing when they see one.

With the tricks and techniques you'll learn from Google Maps Hacks, you'll be able to adapt Google's satellite map feature to create interactive maps for personal and commercial applications for businesses ranging from real estate to package delivery to home services, transportation and more. Includes a foreword by Google Maps tech leads, Jens and Lars Rasmussen.

Customer Reviews:

Good information that's out of date.......2007-01-27

The book is interesting and has many good ideas and some valuable information. Be aware, however, that the advanced hacks (those dealing with calling the API from your own code) are based on a now obsolete version of the API. So, for example, Hack 62 that tells you how to find that longitude and latitude of an address doesn't tell you that you can accomplish the task via Google now. Hack 58 (Find the right zoom level) has one (of three) technique that uses an undocumented API that has, apparently, gone away. And, of course, it doesn't provide the easy way to do it using the current API.

I'm not faulting the authors for not seeing into the future. The book is well written and engaging. Just be aware that parts of it are already out of date.

Valuable content from all perspectives.......2006-09-08

I've read both this and the ExtremeTech "Hacking Google Maps," and both have their place, but I found this one to be much more valuable.

It doesn't contain any introductory information to the API, which some may be looking for, but it's not something that I would expect to see in a Hacks book anyway. With the v2 release of the API in April 2006, Google's own documentation has gotten a lot better, and it's the best place to go for a tutorial.

The book contains a great collection of hacks from all perspectives: users looking to get the most out of Google Maps, power users looking to push the functionality in new ways, and developers using the API. There's also a good overview of some popular mashups from the mashups' developers perspectives, and extensions to the API (e.g. TLabel, TPhoto).

Because there are so many contributors, you'll notice a change in tone and writing style throughout the book; and different coding practices are easy to spot, e.g. one code sample might use a standard, documented JS call, while another uses a homegrown function to accomplish the same thing. Another drawback is that the book is written to v1 of the API, which was replaced months ago, although is backwards compatible. This doesn't affect readability or value, but several of the undocumented features in the book are in fact documented in v2!

Great book, filled with useful information.

VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!.......2006-08-27

Google Maps Hacks: Tips & Tools for Geographic Searching and Remixing (Hacks) (Paperback)

Are you a Google application developer? If you are, then this book is for you! Authors Rich Gibson and Schuyler Erle, have done an outstanding job of writing a book that shows you how to take full advantage of the mapping capabilities in Google Local.

Gibson and Erle, begin by showing you how to look up locations, get driving directions, look at satellite pictures, share links to maps in e-mails and on web pages, generate links to maps from a spreadsheet, and use del.icio.us. Then, the authors show you how to put a map on your page, capture user clicks, create a slideshow connected with a map, create custom icons, and measure distances. Next, they cover a variety of mashups, from mapping the news, to seeing where criminals "work," to weather maps, to answering the question: where is the Space Telescope right now. The authors then help you find the cheapest gas near you, load driving directions into your GPS to take with you, look at your GPS track logs, explore hiking trails, figure out why your cell phone doesn't work at home, and even beat a traffic ticket. They continue by showing you how to geocode your photos on Flickr, set up a blog that knows about place, geocode literature, and examine the choices that go into which satellite images are included. Then, the authors show you how to tweak and extend the Google map. Finally, they show you how to use a clustering algorithm so that your own points fit properly on a map, create your own map tiles, connect to a database, use web standards to display other data on your maps, an even figure out if your kids are likely to barf.

This most excellent book will show you how to make the most of Google Maps. More importantly, you'll find the tools and inspiration you need right in this book!

Where are the basics?.......2006-08-07

The collection of apps here are fascinating. But I looked for a tutorial telling me "this is how you embed a map, select several points of interest, and label them.". It was not visible.

DIY Cartography.......2006-04-03

Everyone knows Google Maps. Google has gone out of its way to make Google Maps something that everyone knows about, uses, and talks about. There are blogs that are just about all the mash-ups and hacks people have come up with for Google Maps.

And now, O'Reilly has released Google Maps Hacks, showing how anyone can use the Google Maps API for their own benefit, with a little help.

The book starts off with a basic tutorial on how to add a Google Map to your site - if you're going to mash up, you have to have something to mash, after all! It also (in Hack 27) shows you how to use Greasemap to add Google Maps functionality to any web site (assuming you've already got Greasemonkey and Firefox is your browser). As with all hacks books, Google Maps Hacks includes some basic hacks that just about anyone can do (and points to some great places to see great hacks already done!), and some that are going to require a bit of work and some programming skill.

There were several hacks in the book that I really loved. First, the book pointed me to a site promising to show me where I could find cheap gas. They've integrated Google Maps with GasBuddy to create something incredibly useful, though I wish it were updated more often. (My local station hasn't been updated since September of 2005!)

To use the really good hacks, you'll need a GPS. Many of the mash-ups are best used when you're out on the road. (Hack 35 shows how to dump Google Maps data to your GPS system, and #37 shows how to reverse that process and import your GPS Tracklogs to Google Maps.)

The most useful part of the book, though, is when we get to see how various mash-ups work. It's one thing to see a great use of the Google Maps API, it's another thing completely to understand how that's done so that you can do it yourself. And that's really what's valuable about the Hacks books - you're shown how something is done, so you can take that understanding and apply it to what you want to do. That's what hacking is all about - information and application of that information in new ways.

The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge

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Geography of Climate Change Issues
Good effort but misses a major point
Excellent Understandable Information!
Adequate intro/primer on climate change, inadequate and biased view of how to fix it

The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge
Kirstin Dow , and Thomas E. Downing
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Today's headlines and recent events reflect the gravity of climate change. Heat waves, droughts, and floods are bringing death to vulnerable populations, destroying livelihoods, and driving people from their homes.
Rigorous in its science and insightful in its message, this atlas examines the causes of climate change and considers its possible impact on subsistence, water resources, ecosystems, biodiversity, health, coastal megacities, and cultural treasures. It reviews historical contributions to greenhouse gas levels, progress in meeting international commitments, and local efforts to meet the challenge of climate change.
The atlas covers a wide range of topics, including
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With more than 50 full-color maps and graphics, this is an essential resource for policy makers, environmentalists, students, and everyone concerned with this pressing subject.

Customer Reviews:

Geography of Climate Change Issues.......2007-09-12

This is an excellent book for those wishing to study the issue of climate change from a geographical standpoint. The maps are excellent - they show exactly where evidence is being found to support global warming, what aeas of the world will be most impacted by global warming, and which nations have committed resources to slowing carbon emissions.

It is a visual guide to global warming, giving a very graphic perspective of the earth as a whole. The scientific explanations of the interacting systems of global winds, ocean currents, atmospheric gasses, and how they are being affected by human alterations, are particularly easy to understand because of the clear diagrams and colorful maps.

As an instructor of physical geography, I find this to be an excellent book for the non-scientist to undertand the physical processes and the science of global warming. The detailed yet easy-to-understand maps and diagrams add another dimension to an often dry and theoretical topic.

Good effort but misses a major point.......2007-04-19

This book enters the fray with a good overview relative to alternative energy as the answer - but, in my opinion, fails to embrace the "source" of today's dilemma. To precipitate a change in climate - we need a sea-change in the overall interaction of humanity with water. To achieve this, it would be wise for each of us to become conscious of how our daily decisions impact the world within our reach. What products we buy, how we use energy, the examples we set, what we say to others, how we help ease the burden of other life forms we come into contact with - all have an impact on water and the future of life in our biosphere. And, it is the condition of water within our biosphere that will determine the success or failure of our civilization.

Excellent Understandable Information!.......2007-03-21

My title says it all! This book is easy to read, pleasant to the eyes with its use of color and visuals, and food for the mind. At last, someone has taken pity on individuals who hear about climate change problems, but have not had the facts about it. I think this book is useful for everyone, and can be used in church, school, and living room settings.

Jay S. Southwick

Adequate intro/primer on climate change, inadequate and biased view of how to fix it.......2007-02-14

The authors do an adequate job of presenting the crisis of climate change in the first four chapters. The book is touted as being scientifically rigorous while Bo Kjellen, in the forward, states that it 'provides facts enabling readers to form an independent view of the problems.' This is true for the first 4 chapters. But when it comes to solutions, both of these authors are clearly in the anti-nuclear 'camp' for alternative energy policy. On page 11 they make this sweeping negative statement:

"Concerns over safety and long term storage of rad waste remain and it is not clear that its potential as an adaptation to climate change offers sufficiently strong justification to overcome economic barriers."

And so nuclear energy quickly gets buried by these authors, never to return again in this title. No sources are cited for this justification. No maps/statistics of countries with successful nuclear energy programs like France and Japan. No mention of nuclear energy's safety record in the US or worldwide (compared to natural gas, coal, oil). No chapter on the pros and cons of the latest nuclear energy technology. No estimation of energy demands the US will have when we're past the peak of oil and gas (which may have occured). No talk of eliminating dependency on foreign oil or the need for immediate and massive carbon emission reductions that are ONLY possible--in the short run-- w/ nuclear energy. It's that simple...minded.
Why is this bias so prevalent? James Lovelock in the REVENGE OF GAIA treats this uninformed bias(propaganda?)in some detail in his chapter Sources of Energy. The romantic notion that renewable energy (4% of current world totals) will have significant impact on adequately quelling carbon emissions is the modern day techno-barbarism promoted by these authors. Yes, renewables (geothermal tidal, solar, etc.) WILL rise in use world wide, but to put such faith in renewables when a 60-80% reduction of carbon is needed for survival (according to the EU) is tantamount to deception on a personal and public level that only a J. Lovelock could expose, and so vividly. Again, I refer the reader--especially those with strong anti-nuke feelings-- to Lovelock's latest release to get his rationale for what the stakes are at this stage of our climate history.

Lovelock and many others like myself are simply tired of the 'happy talk' babbling on renewables coming from authors like these as exemplified on page 87:

"Reducing carbon emissions to this extent will require massive changes to the world's carbon-based economy and our current inefficient use of energy. The GOOD NEWS is that many of the required technologies, such as geothermal, solar, and wind power, already exist, and there are many opportunities to improve and expand on their use." Really? Again, what place does nuclear energy, which accounts for 20% of the energy production in the U.S., have in all of this? None for these two. This is absurd.

Of course nuclear energy is not an approved or 'required' technology for these two authors. Contrary to any 'economic barriers' cited by Dow and Downing, the real barrier promulgated by these authors--and the uniformed public--has to do with ignorance, which ends up driving a flawed political agenda for addressing climate change. (And don't the oil execs love that!)

The views in this book express an unscientific bias that fails to even consider the science, risks, and refined technology of current nuclear energy that one finds in Nuttall's book THE NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE (2005). The dramatic carbon decrease from nuclear energy would certainly be the greatest benefit to human kind and planetary survival. Presenting the challenges of addressing climate climate with THEIR "facts" on nuclear energy, Dow and Downing do a disservice to the concerned reader seeking a comprehensive solution. Would these authors support supplanting China's dependence on coal(75% of their total energy pie) with nuclear? Of course not.
I believe, like Lovelock, that the denial of nuclear energy as a player at the table--and the subtle squashing of ANY debate-- will probably lead to the detriment of all life on this planet. That may sound dramatic, but I believe the stakes are truly that high. We should not let authors like Dow and Downing attempt to rationalize away a technology that, apparently, they have little familiarity with.

RATING: 2 1/2 stars. Time for a revision. And a rapid paradigm shift.

The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas

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Great

The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas
Barbara E. Mundy
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To learn about its territories in the New World, Spain commissioned a survey of Spanish officials in Mexico between 1578 and 1584, asking for local maps as well as descriptions of local resources, history, and geography. In The Mapping of New Spain, Barbara Mundy illuminates both the Amerindian (Aztec, Mixtec, and Zapotec) and the Spanish traditions represented in these maps and traces the reshaping of indigene world views in the wake of colonization.

Customer Reviews:

Great.......2000-08-12

This is a wonderful glimpse into the development of detailed maps of Central America. It expresses the necessity of a country to be aware of the resources it possesses and the lengths to which it must go to obtain this information. Another good book along these same lines is "Mapping and Empire" by Matthew Edney, which describes the process of mapmaking the British government undertook in India. Overall, this is a great book.

Google Earth For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

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Great Book for Beginners and as a Reference
Two Tech Books for One Earth Price

Google Earth For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
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ASIN: 0470095288

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This interesting guide covers all aspects of Google Earth, the freely downloadable application from Google that allows users to view satellite images from all points of the globe
Aimed at a diverse audience, including casual users who enjoy air shots of locales as well as geographers, real estate professionals, and GPS developers
Includes valuable tips on various customizations that users can add, advice on setting up scavenger hunts, and guidance on using Google Earth to benefit a business
Explains modifying general options, managing the layer and placemark systems, and tackling some of the more technical aspects, such as interfacing with GPS
There are more than 400,000 registered users of Google Earth and the number is still growing

Customer Reviews:

Great Book for Beginners and as a Reference.......2007-08-04

I had a lot of questions about the nuances of Google Earth, which is why I purchased this book. The Google Earth tutorials are nice, but only go so far in explaining how to use it. "Google Earth for Dummies" goes a long way for explaining the application, how it works, it's nuances, and how to use it for maximum benefit.

As with many of my "for Dummies" books it is a great reference manual that is well organized, well thought out, and well researched that makes finding answers to questions a snap. I use it when trying to decide how to do animations for presentations and how to most effectively illustrate points that need to be made through placement of different elements either from the 3D library or custom 3D items from Google SketchUp (there is even a short tutorial on how to use Google SketchUp).

In short it covers all the bases, is very informative, is intuitive and well aid out, and it functions as a great reference. Mr. Crowder deserves a "well done" for his efforts, and a "Thank You". It is well worth it's price and the time to learn what's in it.

Two Tech Books for One Earth Price.......2007-05-06

This book is a well written introduction to Google Earth. The fact that it doubles as a wonderful introduction to Google Sketchup means you're getting two outstanding technical primers for the price of one.

As a Google Earth fan from its beta days, I thought a dummies book wouldn't give me enough information to warrant the price of the book, particularly given the abundance of tutorial materials freely available online. This book, while valuable to its base of novice users, offers enough for an intermediate user to justify a thorough reading. For example, while beginners will appreciate the information about geographical terms such as defining latitude and longitude and familiarizing themselves with GPS jargon, other users may find the more comprehensive knowledge about the program's KML file structure and the explanations about the various layers in Google Earth more worth their reading time.

Now again, the addition of the materials on Google Sketchup, a 3D modeling program more likely once intended for CAD and landscape enthusiasts, means that even more accomplished users can use this as a tool to explore Google Earth's more advanced features. I myself had only cursory knowledge of Sketchup before reading this book and was sold on it when I saw how quickly I could get started with 3D modeling and put it to immediate use on Google Earth. Had this book not included the Sketchup section, I would probably have relied on web sites to fill me in on GE's other features. By reading the chapters on Sketchup, I was able to download the program with the confidence that I could begin using the program quickly. I even showed the program to several of my advanced fifth graders who themselves were playing with the program in no time at all.

As a consequence of reading this book, I am a much more capable member of the Google Earth community but I can also now boast some knowledge of 3D modeling. That's not too bad for an Earth dummy.

Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins

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science versus political correctness
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Where did we come from
Too politically correct to be correct
A weak imitation

Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
Steve Olson
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ASIN: 0618352104

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In a journey across four continents, acclaimed science writer Steve Olson traces the origins of modern humans and the migrations of our ancestors throughout the world over the past 150,000 years. Like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, Mapping Human History is a groundbreaking synthesis of science and history. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the latest genetic research, linguistic evidence, and archaeological findings, Olson reveals the surprising unity among modern humans and "demonstrates just how naive some of our ideas about our human ancestry have been" (Discover).Olson offers a genealogy of all humanity, explaining, for instance, why everyone can claim Julius Caesar and Confucius as forebears. Olson also provides startling new perspectives on the invention of agriculture, the peopling of the Americas, the origins of language, the history of the Jews, and more. An engaging and lucid account, Mapping Human History will forever change how we think about ourselves and our relations with others.

Customer Reviews:

science versus political correctness.......2007-10-14

On the science front, this book is very superficial. There are many other ones that are much better and more detailed. About 80% of the book is a political correctness diatribe. If this book represents what passes for scholarship in today's academic environment, our society is in deep trouble.

very good.......2007-06-18

Some critics below carp about political correctness, but the author makes as good a case as any layman's book I've read. He is merely pointing out that human populations converge before they can evolve any important divergent phenotypes, and that all the phenotypes that separate people, which are commonly defined as "race", are pretty much insignificant. He also describes well how the biology works behind the differences in physiognomy that we perceive between the "races".

Human population on this planet is soaring, and we all have to live together more harmoniously, because there's no room left for malcontents to go off and start their own societies anymore. Just like in the remote past, when glaciers and desertification pushed different populations together and compelled their interaction by necessity, all the nations and ethnicities of the world are again bumping up against each other. The realization that we have a common genetic past, and future, is the first step to achieving more international harmony.

Where did we come from.......2007-03-27

Mapping Human History discusses how the use of mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosomal DNA can be used to trace the common origins of humans. Steve builds a case for how humans appeared as a distinct group about 150,000 to 200,000 years ago based on genetic variation we see in people today. By using genetics and the study of haplotypes and haplogroups, it believed that one can trace our ancestry back to a common "Mitochondrial Eve" or an "Adam" neither of which may have lived at the same time. He covers the encounters with other species such as Neanterthal, emergence of agriculture and the development of ethnicity.

Steve covers most of the globe in this quest for common origins: Africa, Middle East, Asia, Australia, and Europe and finally the Americas. The evidence tends to support an African origin. I found the discussion of the settlement of the Americas interesting. The ultimate conclusion of all of this is the commonality of the human species. A case is made for the irrelevance of race; this seems to be a prominent theme throughout the book.

One thing that I found interesting was the fact that written language goes back only to about 3400 BCE. This tends to support the Bible chronology of humans being created only about 6000 years ago (you can't have written history that predates humans), but then this would be in conflict with the genetic findings.

I also read the book The Journey of Man by Spencer Wells which also discusses the genetic history of man. Neither book really discussed, to my satisfaction, exactly how one gets from the genetic variations to the time periods for the existence of humans being promulgated. It would be of value to have more input in this regard.

Too politically correct to be correct.......2006-09-01

Some evidences, but rarely relevant; many deductions, yet mostly illogical; big conclusions, consequently, you know what they can be. This is what Olson's book showed me on and between the lines.

Olson obviously tried to give a final verdict on this otherwise interesting topic `No more arguments and that is it!' I am surprised to realize that this is what he really tried to do. This book has nothing to do with science, because it shows no respect to science and no spirit of science.

Here we see political purposes overrule science and political correctness suffocates science. I will tackle 2 of Olson's main claims.

1) `No significant difference was found in genes belong to different races, thus races do not exist.' Actually the studies on human genes has just started and in its very beginning period. There are too many unknowns to conclude. Let us see a big mistake in our history. When Copernicus and Galileo suggested the Earth be moving around the Sun rather than the other way around, one of their criticisms was that if that was true then we should be able to see the difference on view angles when we observe stars in different seasons. Since no such difference was found, Copernicus and Galileo must be wrong. The argument was as strong and logical as Olson's, but it was completely wrong. No difference on view angles was only because the stars were too far from us and the precision of the observation was too low then. 2 hundred years later, the differences were indeed found and Copernicus and Galileo were proven right. Roman Catholic Inquisition Court used the seemingly credible criticism to incriminate the Copernicus theory supporters; the court even burned Bruno, a fearless supporter of the Copernicus theory, to death in Roman Flower square. 500 hundred years later, not long ago, Roman Catholic apologized for what they did then. Do we need to repeat such mistake today? That no significant difference was found does not mean no significant difference exist. According to the recent study, the difference between human and ape is only 3%. If 3% can make such big difference, what some `insignificant difference' can do?

2) `All the people in the world are descendents of one woman.' This claim is less absurd than the logic from which Olson deducted to his claim. This can only be true if all human were all related. This is the conclusion that Olson tried to prove, but he used it as condition from which he `proved' it as conclusion. Let us see an example. We sometimes see a spam e-mail that asks, with seduction or threaten, you to send, say, 5 people whom you know. Which such original e-mail reached every one on the Earth? If isolation and independency cannot be ruled out, such claim cannot stand. Only from limited results of the gene researches cannot reach such claim. This is why Olson needed to use the conclusion as condition to `prove' the conclusion. According to Olson, the evolution in Africa suddenly popped out one common mother and another common father, thus formed a race, human, then such evolution suddenly stopped.

The hasty with which Olson jumped to his verdict is strikingly obvious. Only with other motivation other than science could explain the behavior. No truth can be revealed if political purposes over rule science conscience. Jumping to the conclusion from such little evidences with such hasty is the recipe to mistake.

Olson also made many contradicting arguments. While he claims no difference between races, he enthusiastically wrote new races were formed from different environment for lions and other animals. I often scratch my head to try to understand where his logic was. He seemed to write with the Bible stories in mind, but in a much faster and in greater scale. When there was a pass of Red Sea, Olson made human pass Red Sea and Berlin Straight. In a very short time, 20,000 years (that is 7,200,000 days), certain human beings out from Africa changed their physique and look. But Olson made sure, even with such a great speed, no more new races formed.

A weak imitation.......2006-08-12

It is conventional wisdom that good books are written by good writers, and that understanding of the subject is of secondary importance. This book is a disproof of that conventional wisdom.

Mr. Olson is a fine writer, but he is not a scientist. Within the first 50 pages he has spent 2 pages on an incorrect explanation of an important genetic concept.

Give me instead the real McCoy: Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza is a scientist with true insight. His book, "Genes, Peoples, and Languages" is beautifully inspired. He truly understands what he is writing about; and the most interesting elements of Mr. Olson's book are better handled in (if not derived from) Dr. Cavalli-Sforza's book.

Mr. Olson, by contrast, is a layman who doesn't quite comprehend that about which he writes. He is the blind leading the blind; and most of his readers don't know the difference, apparently including the nominating committee for the National Book Award.

Mapping the World of Harry Potter: An Unauthorized Exploration of the Bestselling Fantasy Series of All Time (Smart Pop series)

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Adults only, self important, disappointing.
Excellent book for adults who think HP is not "just for kids"
Finally An Adult Take on This Series
Awesome!
Disappointed but probably my fault

Mapping the World of Harry Potter: An Unauthorized Exploration of the Bestselling Fantasy Series of All Time (Smart Pop series)

Manufacturer: Benbella Books
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The Hidden Myths in Harry Potter: Spellbinding Map and Book of Secrets

ASIN: 1932100598

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** COMPLETELY UNAUTHORIZED **

This book has not been authorized by J.K. Rowling, Warner Bros., or anyone associated with the Harry Potter books or movies.

New and old fans of the Harry Potter series will welcome this collection of fresh essays on Potter lore, plotlines, and characters. With up-to-date information through book six in the series, this companion volume offers a comprehensive look at the world of Potter through the eyes of leading science fiction and fantasy writers such as David Gerrold, Joyce Millman, and Martha Wells, and religion, psychology, and science experts. Along with feminism, fascism, and moral life, topics include the Three Faces of Severus Snape, Harry Potter as Luke Skywalker, I Am a Hufflepuff: A Look at the Houses, and Harry Potter and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Customer Reviews:

Adults only, self important, disappointing........2007-06-03

My personal disappointments are these:
1. There are no warnings on the outside that this book is NOT suitable for underage readers.
2. Many of the authors seem smug.
3. I expect better commentary from this group of otherwise seemingly talented authors. What do I mean by "better"? How about something that is really about the Harry Potter series instead of what these authors wish it to have been?
4. How sad is it when the cover artwork far exceeds the book?
I've read a lot of Harry Potter "fan" books. This is the only one that brought less than ten minutes of enjoyment. If you want this book, you can have mine.

Excellent book for adults who think HP is not "just for kids".......2007-03-25

I am a college professor of english literature and composition, but I am also a huge Harry Potter fan. "Mapping the World of Harry Potter" appealed to both sides of my reading pleasure: it gave great insight into the HP books as well as providing really well-written and though-provoking literary analysis and criticism. I couldn't put the book down, and as I read each subsequent essay, I was more and more intrigued and it gave me so much to think about. Really fantastic!

Finally An Adult Take on This Series.......2007-03-13

Finally I found it. A book worth reading, with views offered by real intellects on this series. This book has been a great read and well worth the money spent on it. I find it fun and enlightening. Some of the chapters seemed to drag on but overall they are very good. I found the chapter on Neville Longbottom great, since I completely share the sentiment felt for this character. A lot of thought provoking ideas in here. BE WARNED that there is a chapter on the sex symbol that has become of Severus Snape...this chapter and book are intended for adults. Overall really great!

Awesome!.......2007-03-11

I was really thrilled to get this book, seeing as it is a more serious treatment of the Harry Potter stories. Glad to see that other authors are taking Rowling seriously!

Disappointed but probably my fault.......2007-01-10

I was disappointed in this book, but I think it was probably my fault. I actually thought it was by Mercedes Lackey, not edited by Mercedes Lackey. And it was actually a collection of essays by various people. Boring essays. By people I don't read.

Mapping Hacks: Tips & Tools for Electronic Cartography (Hacks)

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Interesting read, but obsolete at time of publication
Too bad I already knew most of this stuff
Great projects for exploring cartography
Mapping Hacks: Tips & Tools for Electronic Cartography
Not a textbook, but a great resource

Mapping Hacks: Tips & Tools for Electronic Cartography (Hacks)
Schuyler Erle , Rich Gibson , and Jo Walsh
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Since the dawn of creation, man has designed maps to help identify the space that we occupy. From Lewis and Clark's pencil-sketched maps of mountain trails to Jacques Cousteau's sophisticated charts of the ocean floor, creating maps of the utmost precision has been a constant pursuit. So why should things change now? Well, they shouldn't. The reality is that map creation, or "cartography," has only improved in its ease-of-use over time. In fact, with the recent explosion of inexpensive computing and the growing availability of public mapping data, mapmaking today extends all the way to the ordinary PC user. Mapping Hacks, the latest page-turner from O'Reilly Press, tackles this notion head on. It's a collection of one hundred simple--and mostly free--techniques available to developers and power users who want draw digital maps or otherwise visualize geographic data. Authors Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, and Jo Walsh do more than just illuminate the basic concepts of location and cartography, they walk you through the process one step at a time. Mapping Hacks shows you where to find the best sources of geographic data, and then how to integrate that data into your own map. But that's just an appetizer. This comprehensive resource also shows you how to interpret and manipulate unwieldy cartography data, as well as how to incorporate personal photo galleries into your maps. It even provides practical uses for GPS (Global Positioning System) devices--those touch-of-a-button street maps integrated into cars and mobile phones. Just imagine: If Captain Kidd had this technology, we'd all know where to find his buried treasure! With all of these industrial-strength tips and tools, Mapping Hacks effectively takes the sting out of the digital mapmaking and navigational process. Now you can create your own maps for business, pleasure, or entertainment--without ever having to sharpen a single pencil.

Customer Reviews:

Interesting read, but obsolete at time of publication.......2007-10-10

I should begin by noting that while I am a competent programmer and geocacher, prior to reading this book I knew only as much about mapping and cartography as I could glean from episodes of NOVA and my childhood orienteering training. It is my suspicion that those more familiar with mapping technologies could make better use of some of the hacks in this book, so my review will be necessarily incomplete as I am not in a position to evaluate or even comprehend the more sophisticated hacks.

Perhaps the greatest virtue of this book is the introductory material toward the beginning that discusses some of the theory of mapping, geocoding, and computer navigation. Arguably I learned more from this material than from any of the more specific technical hacks.

For a great many of the hacks, however, the book is a victim of bad timing. While today (and even at time of publication) the Google Maps API is the de facto standard mapping system on the web, and Google Earth is certainly the best designed and most thorough free end-user GIS program, O'Reilly's Mapping Hacks makes no mention of either. This was a supreme disappointment for me and, I would think, anyone who was hoping this book could provide guidance for developing the latest and greatest Google Maps-enabled web application. If O'Reilly follows this with a new edition (which I very much hope they do) this major deficiency will obviously be rectified.

Some of the neatest hacks, however, are ideas that many of us have thought about in the backs of our minds but have never seriously tried to implement. These generally also do not depend on any particular mapping API, mitigating the foregoing concerns. I am particularly fond of Hack 16, which supplies the reader with information on a variety of useful geopolitical statistics websites, and Hack 62, which introduces Perl functionality I didn't even know existed and is instructive on mapping GSM cell sites. (After all, everyone has wanted a nice map of cell coverage just like in the TV series "24," right?)

Overall, I would recommend this book to those interested in learning what is possible to do with computer mapping, but who are also willing to go research more modern innovations to supplement the book's material. For those seeking more shake-and-bake recipes (as are frequently found in the excellent "Hacks" series), lobby O'Reilly for a new edition!

Too bad I already knew most of this stuff.......2007-02-20

I didn't really get a lot out of this book. I took the title to mean that it had code for online mapping. Not so much. It was kind of fun to browse through, but not what I was looking for at the time. It's one of the reasons I buy most of my books at a bookstore instead of online.

Great projects for exploring cartography.......2006-08-18

This book is a combination of tips and tricks that allow users to better use mapping tools that are already available and to understand how these various tools work. For example, there are explanations of why MapQuest got it wrong and how Fundrace was built. Most of the book takes advantage of free or open source offerings for the desktop and the Web.

The hacks range from those for beginners to those for with advanced cartographic skills. Some hacks are just introductions to websites. These include David Rumsey's website, Census' TIGER server and NASA's World Wind. Other chapters introduce online tools for changing decimal degrees to degrees/minutes/seconds, and for the experienced programmer, there are the tools to build a desktop application using open source PROJ.4. There are quite a few hacks that involve programming - PERL in particular - so to get the most out of this book you should already be familiar with PERL. The following is the table of contents with some comments on each chapter.

Chapter 1. Mapping Your Life - Helps you find the important places in your life on online road maps and aerial imagery, consider the spatial aspects of your personal digital media collection, and examine geographic data with nongeographic tools.
Hack 1. Put a Map on It: Mapping Arbitrary Locations with Online Services
Hack 2. Route Planning Online
Hack 3. Map the Places You've Visited
Hack 4. Find Your House on an Aerial Photograph
Hack 5. The Road Less Traveled by in MapQuest
Hack 6. Make Route Maps Easier to Read
Hack 7. Will the Kids Get Sick?
Hack 8. Publish Maps of Your Photos on the Web
Hack 9. Track the Friendly Skies with Sherlock
Hack 10. Georeference Digital Photos
Hack 11. How Far? How Fast? Geo-Enabling Your Spreadsheet
Hack 12. Create a Distance Grid in Excel
Hack 13. Add Maps to Excel Spreadsheets with MapPoint
Chapter 2. Mapping Your Neighborhood - Shows how to map your immediate surroundings: politically, demographically, electromagnetically, and in full-color 3-D.
Hack 14. Make Free Maps of the United States Online
Hack 15. Zoom Right In on Your Neighborhood
Hack 16. Who Are the Neighbors Voting For?
Hack 17. Map Nearby Wi-Fi Hotspots
Hack 18. Why You Can't Watch Broadcast TV
Hack 19. Analyze Elevation Profiles for Wireless Community Networks
Hack 20. Make 3-D Raytraced Terrain Models
Hack 21. Map Health Code Violations with RDFMapper
Chapter 3. Mapping Your World - From maps of the historical past to maps of other planets, learn why getting a round world to look right on a flat surface is hard, and what to do about it. Fun for the mathematically inclined.
Hack 22. Digging to China
Hack 23. Explore David Rumsey's Historical Maps
Hack 24. Explore a 3-D Model of the Entire World
Hack 25. Work with Multiple Lat/Long Formats
Hack 26. Work with Different Coordinate Systems
Hack 27. Calculate the Distance Between Points on the Earth's Surface
Hack 28. Experiment with Different Cartographic Projections
Hack 29. Plot Arbitrary Points on a World Map
Hack 30. Plot a Great Circle on a Flat Map
Hack 31. Plot Dymaxion Maps in Perl
Hack 32. Hack on Base Maps in Your Favorite Image Editor
Hack 33. Georeference an Arbitrary Tourist Map
Hack 34. Map Other Planets
Chapter 4. Mapping (on) the Web - The World Wide Web offers a fertile environment for dynamic and interactive cartography. Plot your weblog, your photo galleries, major earthquakes, the weather, demographic statistics, and more.
Hack 35. Search Local, Find Global
Hack 36. Shorten Online Map URLs
Hack 37. Tweak the Look and Feel of Web Maps
Hack 38. Add Location to Weblogs and RSS Feeds
Hack 39. View Your Photo Thumbnails on a Flash Map
Hack 40. Plot Points on a Spinning Globe Applet
Hack 41. Plot Points on an Interactive Map Using DHTML
Hack 42. Map Your Tracklogs on the Web
Hack 43. Map Earthquakes in (Nearly) Real Time
Hack 44. Plot Statistics Against Shapes
Hack 45. Extract a Spatial Model from Wikipedia
Hack 46. Map Global Weather Conditions
Chapter 5. Mapping with Gadgets - Everything you wanted to know about making maps with GPS, building your own car navigation system, getting maps on your cell phone, and other locative fun with various electronic devices.
Hack 47. Get Maps on Your Mobile Phone
Hack 48. Accessorize Your GPS
Hack 49. Get Your Tracklogs in Windows or Linux
Hack 50. The Serial Port to USB Conundrum
Hack 51. Speak in Geotongues: GPSBabel to the Rescue
Hack 52. Show Your Waypoints on Aerial Photos with Terrabrowser
Hack 53. Visualize Your Tracks in Three Dimensions
Hack 54. Create Your Own Maps for a Garmin GPS
Hack 55. Use Your Track Memory as a GPS Base Map
Hack 56. Animate Your Tracklogs
Hack 57. Connect to Your GPS from Multiple Applications
Hack 58. Don't Lose Your Tracklogs!
Hack 59. Geocode Your Voice Recordings and Other Media
Hack 60. Improve the Accuracy of Your GPS with Differential GPS
Hack 61. Build a Map of Local GSM Cells
Hack 62. Build a Car Computer
Hack 63. Build Your Own Car Navigation System with GpsDrive
Chapter 6. Mapping on Your Desktop - How and why "Geographic Information Systems" is far, far more than just a fancy term for making maps on a computer.
Hack 64. Mapping Local Areas of Interest with Quantum GIS
Hack 65. Extract Data from Maps with Manifold
Hack 66. Java-Based Desktop Mapping with Openmap
Hack 67. Seamless Data Download from the USGS
Hack 68. Convert Geospatial Data Between Different Formats
Hack 69. Find Your Way Around GRASS
Hack 70. Import Your GPS Waypoints and Tracklogs into GRASS
Hack 71. Turn Your Tracklogs into ESRI Shapefiles
Hack 72. Add Relief to Your Topographic Maps
Hack 73. Make Your Own Contour Maps
Hack 74. Plot Wireless Network Viewsheds with GRASS
Hack 75. Share Your GRASS Maps with the World
Hack 76. Explore the Effects of Global Warming
Hack 77. Become a GRASS Warrior
Chapter 7. Names and Places - Shows you how to find the coordinates of things and the things near coordinates.
Hack 78. What to Do if Your Government Is Hoarding Geographic Data
Hack 79. Geocode a U.S. Street Address
Hack 80. Automatically Geocode U.S. Addresses
Hack 81. Clean Up U.S. Addresses
Hack 82. Find Nearby Things Using U.S. ZIP Codes
Hack 83. Map Numerical Data the Easy Way
Hack 84. Build a Free World Gazetteer
Hack 85. Geocode U.S. Locations with the GNIS
Hack 86. Track a Package Across the U.S.
Chapter 8. Building the Geospatial Web - Learn the fundamental concepts of the emerging geospatial web and how to start building and publishing spatial data repositories.
Hack 87. Build a Spatially Indexed Data Store
Hack 88. Load Your Waypoints into a Spatial Database
Hack 89. Publish Your Geodata to the Web with GeoServer
Hack 90. Crawl the Geospatial Web with RedSpider
Hack 91. Build Interactive Web-Based Map Applications
Hack 92. Map Wardriving (and other!) Data with MapServer
Chapter 9. Mapping with Other People - Modeling the real, the subjective, and the wholly imaginary, and including other people in your hobby.
Hack 93. Node Runner
Hack 94. Geo-Warchalking with 2-D Barcodes
Hack 95. Model Interactive Spaces
Hack 96. Share Geo-Photos on the Web
Hack 97. Set Up an OpenGuide for Your Hometown
Hack 98. Give Your Great-Great-Grandfather a GPS
Hack 99. Map Your Friend-of-a-Friend Network
Hack 100. Map Imaginary Places

Mapping Hacks: Tips & Tools for Electronic Cartography.......2006-07-25

It has hundreds of well explained options to handle cartography issues

Not a textbook, but a great resource.......2006-03-25

This book was assigned as the textbook for a graduate class in cybercartography, mostly because the professor couldn't find a book that really addressed the topic. And while this is nothing like a textbook, it's a fantastic resource for anyone interested in internet or dynamic mapping -- and the information is relevant beyond this (perhaps relatively narrow) discipline.

It's cut into bite-sized pieces, and the bites are tasty and well chosen. The topics cover a broad range of material, from cool web sites I'd never have otherwise found to propeller-head "get under the hood and have some fun" stuff that you'd be hard pressed to find covered in a half-dozen other books.

This is definitely worth a look -- I'm going to keep this for years, and I KNOW I'll be using it for a long time.

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