TY  - BOOK
AU  - local
TI  - Atlas of the world
SN  - 079227542x
AV  - R G 1021 .At65 2005 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - National Geographic Society
KW  - sears
KW  - Atlases
N1  - Contents: World - Natural world - Human world - North America - South America - Europe - Asia - Africa - Australia and Oceania - The Poles - Oceans - Cities - Space - Nations
N2  - With this eighth edition of the National Geographic Atlas of the World, human interpretation and draftsmanship have been raised to an entirely new level by cartographic tools inconceivable to former mapmakers. Satellite-based global positioning systems (GPS) and a steady stream of other satellite data allows to generate amazingly precise and details portraits of the planet, without ever touching a pen to paper. Powerful new computer software programs called Geographic Informaiton Sustems (GIS), selects, analyzes and layers data to depict the complicated, interlocking forces at work on the ground - from geologic conditions to human migration to environmental change. There were more than 15,000 updates to the map plates in this edition. They reflect the political, social, and environmental upheavals that have occured
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