Stephen Wise 2002: GIS Basics. Taylor and Francis. $29.00 at U Bookstore;
Chrisman, N.R. 1997: Exploring
GIS. John Wiley.
Ex-textbook: for those wanting a more high-minded viewpoint from
a mathematician/ computer scientist:
Worboys, Michael 1995: GIS: A Computing Approach. Taylor & Francis.
Razavi, Amir, 2002: ArcGIS Developers Guide for VBA Onward Press.; $49.95 from ESRI; usually better than the ESRI books, but this is a new one...
ESRI 2002: Exploring ArcObjects volumes 1 and 2. $99.95 from ESRI.
Your own set of the posters.
ESRI Using ArcIMS 4. $29.95 from ESRI.
(some distributed directly on paper, others online)
Tobler, Waldo 1976: Analytical Cartography, The American Cartographer, 3, 21-31.
Douglas, David H., 1990, "It Makes Me So Cross",
in Donna J. Peuquet, and Duane F. Marble, eds., Introductory Readings
in Geographic Information Systems, London: Taylor and Francis,
pp. 303- 307. (Reprint of article first published in 1974.)
NIMA document Geodesy for Laymen
Snyder, John, Extracts from Map Projections: A Working Manual,
US GS Prof. Paper 1395.
Douglas David H. and Peucker, Thomas 1974: Algorithms for the reduction of the number of points required to represent a digitized line or its caricature, Canadian Cartographer 11, 112-122. web version posted by David Douglas.
Chrisman, Dougenik and White 1991: WHIRLPOOL paper, Proceedings Spatial Data Handling.
Tobler, Waldo 1979: A Transformational View of Cartography, The American Cartographer, 6, 101-106.
Bowyer, Adrian and Woodwark, John 1983: A Programmer's Geometry, Butterworths.
Nyerges, Timothy 1991: Analytical Map Use, Cartography and
GIS, 18 (1)
Chrisman, N.R. 1984: On storage of coordinates in geographic information
systems, Geoprocessing, 2: 259-270.
Peucker, Thomas K. and Chrisman, N.R. 1975: Cartographic Data
Structures, The American Cartographer, 2, 55-69.
Peucker, Thomas K. 1975: A theory of the cartographic line,
Int. Yearbook of Cartography, 134-142.
Danko, David 1992: Global Data: The Digital Chart of the World,
Geo Info Systems, (1) 28-36..
Beard, M. Kate, and Chrisman, N.R. 1988: Zipper: A localized approach
to edgematching, The American Cartographer, 15, 163-172.
Saalfeld, Alan 1988: Conflation: Automated map compilation, Int.
J. GIS, 2, 217-228.
Gold, Chistopher 1988: PAN Graphs: An aid to GIS analysis, Int.
J GIS, 2, 29-41.
Peuquet, Donna J. 1981: An examination of techniques for reformatting
digital cartographic data/ Part 1: the raster to vector process,
Cartographica, 18(1), 34-48.
Peuquet, Donna J. 1981: An examination of techniques for reformatting
digital cartographic data/ Part 2: the vector to raster process,
Cartographica, 18(3), 21-33.
Maling, Derek 1992: Map Projections and Coordinate Systems
(2nd Edition), Pergamon
Unwin, David 1981: Introductory Spatial Analysis, Methuen.
McMaster, Robert, and Shea, K. Stuart 1992: Generalization
in Digital Cartography, AAG Resource Publication. ($15)
Snyder, John 1982: Map Projections used by the US Geological
Survey, Geological Survey Bulletin 1532, GPO.
Snyder, John 1987: Map Projections: A Working Manual, Geological
Survey Professional Paper 1395, GPO.
Snyder, John 1989: An Album of Map Projections, Geological
Survey Professional Paper 1453, GPO.
Snyder, John 1985: Computer-Assisted Map Projection Research,
Geological Survey Bulletin 1629, GPO.
ElAssal, Atef 1987: GCTP documentation, NOS NOAA Rockville MD.
Chrisman, N.R. and Langran, G. 1988: A Framework for Temporal Geographic Information, Cartographica, 25 (3) 1-14.
<web based resources>
Spatial Data Transfer
Standard activities; the actual text;
VPF Mil
STD 2407
VPF Design Manual
Vector Product Format; web resources at NIMA
Vector Map level 0 (used to be Digital Chart of the World