PowerPoint Slides
We are pleased to offer an extensive set of PowerPoint slides to accompany Judith A. Tyner's The World of Maps: Map Reading and Interpretation for the 21st Century.
You can download the slides corresponding to the chapters by clicking on the links below.
I. Map Reading Basics
1. Introduction: The Importance of Map Reading2. Landmarks of Mapmaking
3. Map Basics
4. The Figure of the Earth and Coordinate Systems
5. Map Projections: The Round Earth on Flat Paper
6. The Earth from Above: Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation
II. Map Types and Their Analysis
7. Virtual Maps and GPS8. Topographic Maps
9. Thematic Maps
10. Maps for Navigation
11. Maps for Special Purposes
III. Putting It All Together
12. Map Interpretation13. Epilogue: The Future of Maps and Map Reading
