Some free books on map making and geospatial measurement

 

Geodesy for the layman:

http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/Geodesy4Layman/toc.htm

Older, but a good introduction to finding points on the earth’s surface – an important aspect of GIS.

Map projections; a working manual

http://onlinepubs.er.usgs.gov/djvu/PP/pp_1395.djvu

Good material for understanding how to move earth bound points to a 2D surface. A bit thick, but some good parts.

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