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Mapping Our Changing World

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Chapter 2: Shrinking and Flattening the Globe: Scale, Projections, and Datums

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Overview
2.1 What is Scale?
2.2 The Need for Coordinate Systems
2.3 What are Map Projections?
2.4 The Nearly Spherical Earth
2.5 Glossary
2.6 Bibliography

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GEOG 160: Mapping Our Changing World

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Chapter 1: Location is Where It’s At: Introduction to GIScience and Technology
Chapter 2: Shrinking and Flattening the Globe: Scale, Projections, and Datums
Chapter 3: Can I Map That? Maps to Depict Anything in Our World
Chapter 4: Encoding Our World: Geographic Data Representation
Chapter 5: How We Know Where We Are: Land Surveying, GPS, and Technology
Chapter 6: Can We Get There From Here? Applications of Topology, TIGER, and Geocoding
Chapter 7: Remote Sensing: Imaging Our World
Chapter 8: Representing Surfaces
Chapter 9: Geo-Analytics: From Data to Answers

Joshua Stevens, Jennifer M. Smith, and Raechel A. Bianchetti (2012), Mapping Our Changing World, Editors: Alan M. MacEachren and Donna J. Peuquet, University Park, PA: Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University.

Adapted from DiBiase, David, The Nature of Geographic Information (http://natureofgeoinfo.org), with contributions by Jim Sloan and Ryan Baxter, John A. Dutton e-Education Institute, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University.

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