Download or read book Advances in Cartography and GIScience. Volume 1 written by Anne Ruas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is comprised of a selection of the best papers presented during the 25th International Cartography Conference which was held in Paris between 3rd and 8th July 2011. The scope of the conference covers all fields of relevant GIS and Mapping research subjects, such as geovisualization, semiotics, SDI, standards, data quality, data integration, generalization, use and user issues, spatio-temporal modelling and analysis, open source technologies and web services, digital representation of historical maps, history of GIS and cartography as well as cartography for school children and education.