cartography

Good books on cartography/GIS programming?

I'm looking for some recommendations on good books that cover cartography and GIS from a programming perspective. I'm not talking about books that concentrate on some concrete GIS technology or GIS product. Ideally the book should cover stuff like map projections coordinate systems image rectification and georeferencing (GeoTIFF, world...

Suggestions on manipulating an SVG map

Hi, I'm working on a map of the native languages of California for Wikipedia. The map contains areas that each correspond to a language. The original looks like this (click it to see the SVG): I want to make "locator maps" for each of those individual languages by hand (in Inkscape), like this one, for a language called Cahuilla (whi...

java transform projection EPSG:900913 to EPSG:4326

in the openlayers we can simple transform EPSG:900913 to EPSG:4326 I'm look for a java lib can do that. here I found this, http://www.jhlabs.com/java/maps/proj/index.html but the document is in c++ I don't know how to use it. If anyone konw that, please post a simple code ...

How do I plot latitude/longitude coordinates on the screen?

I am trying to figure out how to plot WGS84 latitude/longitude points on a bitmap but cannot figure out the math required to turn lat/lon points into coordinates that would be plottable. Could anyone give me some pointers or examples on how to do this? thanks Colin ...

Cartography and road maps in java

Hi all i'm developing an application must show a list of customers, resellers and other types of data an ao geographic map (from satellites) or on a road map for an university's exam. With this application i've to calulate the isodromi distance and the street route, where possible, from a source and a destination. I looked at Google Map...