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From: Cartography and Geographic Information Science
Date: 20030401
Author:Harvey, Francis J.

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away. [Saint Augustine, Confessions (5th Century)]

Cartography and geographic information science are constantly undergoing transitions. Since the 1960s, both disciplines have seen a sea change in the ways people collect, process, and present geographic information. The meta-level changes, associated with the post-industrial transformation to the information society and economy, raise many questions about the past, present, and future of both cartography and ...

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