A great springboard, 06 Dec 2006
Pickles has manged to capture the essence of the crisis in cartographic representation in a concise, well structured text. He starts with a great introduction and leads into a detailed and in-depth analysis.

A must for all of the spatial sceintists out there, whatver discipline you work in.

A great springboard, 06 Dec 2006
Pickles has manged to capture the essence of the crisis in cartographic representation in a concise, well structured text. He starts with a great introduction and leads into a detailed and in-depth analysis.

A must for all of the spatial sceintists out there, whatver discipline you work in.

An overall coverage of the history of modern geodesy, 12 Jun 1998
I found Mr. Smith's book to be very informative and well written. He covers many aspects of geodesy from early history to modern application. He is apparently very knowledgable and has a broad spectrum of experiences which he writes about. There are some instances when Mr. Smith tells a large amount of information, maybe more than the average reader would require. There are other times that I wished he would tell me more. He has a writing style that tends to skip around alot. Just hang in there and you will get the information in another chapter. There is always the bibliography for reference, if, Mr. Smith didn't cover it, which is rare indeed. He covers such obscure subjects such as: coriolis effect, isostasy and dynamic heights. Throughout the book all of the illustrations are simple yet understandable in almost all cases.