Digital Places: Living with Geographic Information Technologies

By Michael R. Curry

Book Overview

Focusing on the ramifications of GIS usage, Digital Places shows that they are associated with far-reaching changes in the institutions in which they exist, and in the lives of those they touch.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415130158
• ISBN13: 9780415130158
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Careful analysis of the change due to information systems

This is a careful and thoughtful analysis of the changes brought about by the introduction of "information systems'" into cartography. Place as well as the discipline are transformed with wider implications for the "map" of social realities. C