Cartographic Grounds

This book celebrates the art and science of cartography and how technological advances in the field help us imagine, visualize, and actualize a design while addressing the age-old problem of depicting three-dimensional reality on two-dimensional media. Lavishly illustrated, Cartographic Grounds demonstrates how the incredible advances in technology dramatically increase the practical value, not to mention the beauty, of modern landscape mapping. Geographic Information Systems--powerful computer based programs that can be used for map making-- are an important tool for the Ecological Modeling Lab and other labs at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.