Books
ESRI Australia has a wide variety of ESRI Press books available for purchase via our Online Store. ESRI Press are renowned for their award-winning books about the science, application, and technology of GIS. You can purchase these books, and other publications directly from ESRI Australia's online store.
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Book of the Month
Charting the Unknown
How Computer Mapping at Harvard Became GIS
Author: Nick Chrisman
Charting the Unknown presents a history of GIS technology that takes readers back more than four decades to the Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, where a variety of professionals converged to rethink thematic mapping, spatial analysis, and what we now call GIS. Lavishly illustrated, this book explores some of the themes addressed by this fertile interdisciplinary collaboration. It includes some of the early computer mapping software and experimentation in cartography. Any current user of GIS technology will be fascinated to find out some of the complex origins of the GIS toolkit.
The book includes a CD?ROM containing interviews with important figures at the Harvard Laboratory, three movies showing animated visualiation, and scanned copies of Context publications (from 1968 to 1983) describing research and research-related activities at the lab.