The KML Handbook: Geographic Visualization for the Web

Preface

“Learning to ‘see geographically’ means grasping an ever-changing world in an integrated way. It means getting to the heart of environmental and human problems. It involves balancing global and local understandings. It opens an opportunity to encompass themes vital to today’s world: the working of the earth’s natural systems, the increasingly problematic interaction between people and the physical environment, the nature of human social organisation with all its inequalities and struggles for power over people and nature.”

—From “Why Choose Geography?” Geography Department, University of Liverpool

I took my only formal geography class in the eighth grade from Mr. Granger, and I loved it. I’m intrigued by the different graphical styles ...