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Why North is Up: Map Conventions and Where They Came From

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Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making? How have cartographers through the centuries developed their craft and established a language of maps which helps them to better represent our world and users to understand it? This book tells the story of how widely accepted mapping conventions originated and evolved - from map orientation, projections, typography and scale, to the use of colour, map symbols, ways of representing relief and the treatment of boundaries and place names. It ...

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Why North is Up: Map Conventions and Where They Came From 2019, Bodleian Library, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9781851245192

Hardcover