Best of the Web: Geography.G79 2004-302278 3-598-11537-7 Best of the Web; geography. Leftley, Chris. K.G. Saur, [c]2004 106 p. $42.00 (pa) In this nicely annotated webography, Leftley (chartered librarian, U. of Oxford) picks the most reliable, stable and informative sites from around the world, gives title, URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. , owner or maintainer, server location and a full description. Logically sorted into general resources, resources by category, and indexes, sites include libraries and their catalogues, bibliographies, subject gateways, awareness services, organizations, and teaching-related sites, and categories including cartography cartography: see map. cartography or mapmaking Art and science of representing a geographic area graphically, usually by means of a map or chart. Political, cultural, or other nongeographic features may be superimposed. , cybergeography, earth sciences, environment, metrology metrology Science of measurement. Measuring a quantity means establishing its ratio to another fixed quantity of the same kind, known as the unit of that kind of quantity. , population and remote sensing Deriving digital models of an area on the earth. Using special cameras from airplanes or satellites, either the sun's reflections or the earth's temperature is turned into digital maps of the area. . Leftley even includes indices by site name, URL and keyword for those of us low on organic memory. |
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