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Overview

Steven Manson

Learn how to read, use, and create maps, and along the way explore how maps reflect the relationship between society and technology. Mapping is an essential form of scientific and artistic inquiry as well as a trillion-dollar business. People, companies, and governments use and misuse maps and map technology to tell stories, save lives, rig elections, and spy on you.

 

The second edition offers expanded and updated chapters, including new material on data, visualization, analysis, and surveillance.

 

The following contributing authors have made the second edition bigger and better!

Dudley Bonsal. James Madison University
Alison DeGraff Ollivierre, Tombolo Maps & Design
Eric Deluca, Translators without Borders
Rachael Huerta Carpenter, Tombolo Maps & Design
Jennifer Immich, City of Boulder / University of Colorado Boulder
Melinda Kernik. University of Minnesota Libraries
Steven Manson, University of Minnesota
Laura Matson, Lockridge Grindal Nauen
Sara Nelson, University of British Columbia
Julie Santella, Santella Editing
Jerry Shannon, University of Georgia

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