Browsing Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association by Title
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2006-09-25)Very few institutions offer introductory courses in the history of cartography. Distance learning is a way to make this type of course more widely available. This paper discusses the ways in which special collections ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-08-29)Few geospatial data representations are more basic than the bounding box; a rectangle surrounding a geographic feature or dataset. Bounding boxes are a key component of geospatial metadata and lie at the heart of many ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-08-29)In an attempt to shed some light on the problem of Martin Waldseemüller’s portrayal of the shape of South America on his important 1507 world map, polynomial warping algorithms and regression analysis are applied to the ...