Free E-Textbook "Cartography 2.0"

• Main Authors: Nedjeljko Frančula, Dražen Tutić
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Croatian Cartographic Society 2011-06-01
• Series: Kartografija i Geoinformacije
• Online Access: http://kig.kartografija.hr/index.php/kig/article/view/140

Mark Harrower, Anthony C. Robinson, Robert E. Roth and Ben Sheesely wrote the e-textbook Cartography 2.0 and made it available on the Internet at no charge. The textbook’s website (http://Cartography2.org) explains their reasoning, which was also published in the Cartographic Perspectives journal (Cartography 2.0: For People Who Make Interactive Maps, Number 64, Fall 2009). They emphasize they were frustrated with traditional textbooks’ inability to keep in touch with web technologies, and they could not locate a comprehensive source of width and depth expected from a professional textbooks. They elaborate on this in detail.