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chapter 1
introduction
Far from being an antique craft belonging to a bygone era,
cartography is the art of geovisualization; a way of sharing spatial
knowledge and empowering people through the application of
good design, whether the medium is electronic or paper, permanent
or perishable, static or dynamic.
—A
lexander
J. K
ent
,
Bulletin of
the Society of Cartographers (2008)
