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“Atlases and Gazetteers” Dr. John V. Richardson Jr., Professor “Information Access” UCLA GSEIS Department of Information Studies Presentation Outline Definitions Geography, Physical and Human (Cultural) Cartography Gazetteer Atlas and Map Types of Maps Historical Cartography (in the US) Standards for Evaluation CD-ROM and WWW Examples Definitions Geographical information, often in the form of visual information, involves spatial relationships. SLA, Geography and Map Division, Bulletin. The formal study of geography as an academic discipline involves: physical (soil, terrain, rivers, geo