Framework for the world
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Framework for the world
GeoInformation International , J. Wiley & Sons, 1997
- : uk
- : us
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Partial table of contents:
- Topographic Mapping in the Twenty--First Century (J. Morrison).
- BUILDING THE NATIONAL FRAMEWORKS.
- Mapping for the Reconstruction of South Africa (D. Clarke).
- Mapping in Russia: The Present Stage of Development (N. Zhdanov).
- THE GLOBAL FRAMEWORK AND USER NEEDS.
- The Military as Users and Producers of Global Spatial Data (R. Lenczowski).
- BEYOND MAPPING: INTERNATIONAL TRENDS AFFECTING NATIONAL MAPPING ORGANIZATIONS.
- New Technology and Its Impact on the Framework for the World (C. Calvert, et al.).
- The Australian National Spatial Data Infrastructure (D. Mooney & D. Grant).
- Geographical Data Infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific (D. Mohamed).
- RE--INVENTING GOVERNMENT AND NATIONAL MAPPING ORGANIZATIONS.
- The French Approach (J. Grelot).
- Merger, Government Firms, and Privatization?: The New Swedish Approach (U. Sandgren).
- Epilogue: Where Next for the Framework and the National Mapping Organizations?
- About the Authors.
- Indexes.
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