Charting the Unknown: How Computer Mapping at Harvard Became GIS

摘要: "Charting the Unknown" presents a history of GIS technology that takes readers back more than four decades to Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, where variety professionals converged rethink thematic mapping, spatial analysis, what we now call GIS. The book includes CD containing interviews with important figures at Laboratory, three movies showing animated visualization, scanned copies Context publications (from 1968 1983) describing research research-related activities lab. Any current user will be fascinated explore complex origins toolkit.