The new edition of this best-selling textbook reflects the increasing importance of cartography as the basis for geographical analysis. The book has been thoroughly updated, and is further enhanced through four new and timely chapters: Atlases, Mapping Time, Maps and the World Wide Web, and Geovisualization.

The text places particular emphasis on the role of maps in the geospatial data infrastructure, and its link to multimedia and the web.

A companion web site supports the book with many additional illustrations for all chapters as well as an extensive list of links to other relevant web sites. The web site will be used to keep the book up-to-date, with discussions and information on new developments in the field.