California, 29 May 2007: ESRI announced that a new edition of Swiss cartographer Eduard Imhof’s Cartographic Relief Presentation will be released by ESRI Press in June, showcasing the artistry, and science that went into his relief maps.
The book provides a historical overview of cartographic relief depiction. Imhof writes about early symbols of terrain representation such as using domed molehills to represent mountains and the more intricate bird’s-eye drawing of relief features by Leonardo da Vinci in his maps of Tuscany. The book also teaches readers techniques in symbology, color, hillshading, rock drawing, and contours. The book was last published 25 years ago and the new print will continue to instruct and inspire cartographers, geographers, GIS mapmakers. Imhof was a professor of cartography at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
