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The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis. Volume 1 Geographic Patterns and Relationships. By ANDY MITCHELL Redlands: Environmental Systems Research Institute, 1999, 186 pp, L29.99 (pbk) ISBN 1 879102 064
When I was an undergraduate, more than 30 years ago, I took courses in map and diagram design. We learned about map projections, about choropleth maps, about the intervals to be used when constructing contour maps; for example, equal intervals or equal frequency. The production of these maps was slow, because at best we had mechanical calculators or else logarithm tables.
This book is basically about exactly the same thing. It...