Framework for the World - Couverture rigide

Rhind, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0470244402 ISBN 13 : 9780470244401

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1997

Synopsis

Drawn from the Cambridge Conference for National Mapping Agencies, this book sets forth the future of the geographical structure across the world. This book describes the activities of selected National Mapping Organizations and assesses how technological changes and national variations in policy are affecting mapping and the geographical framework worldwide. This book describes what has happened to it and anticipates what is coming next.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

About the Editor David Rhind is Director General and Chief Executive of Ordnance Survey, the National Mapping Organization of Britain. He has worked in geographical information for 30 years and lectured on mapping or GIS in over 40 countries. He was Professor of Geography in Birkbeck College, University of London, for the decade up to the end of 1991, previously being Dean of Economics Faculty and Head of a Resource Centre' (comprising the departments of Computer Science, Economics, Geography, and Mathematics and Statistics). A graduate of both the universities of Bristol and Edinburgh, he was Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art from 1969 73 followed by Lecturer and Reader at the University of Durham. He also worked for short periods at the International Training Centre in the Netherlands and at the Australian National University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0470244402
• ISBN 13: 9780470244401
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 310
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible