| Pt. I | | Communication and Geographic Understanding | | |
| Ch. 1 | | Goals of Cartography and GI: Representation and Communication | | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | | Choices in How We Make Representations | | 34 |
| Ch. 3 | | GI and Cartography Issues | | 53 |
| Pt. II | | Principles of GI and Cartography | | |
| Ch. 4 | | Projections | | 75 |
| Ch. 5 | | Locational and Coordinate Systems | | 102 |
| Ch. 6 | | Databases, Cartography, and Geographic Information | | 127 |
| Ch. 7 | | Surveying, GPS, Digitization | | 139 |
| Ch. 8 | | Remote Sensing | | 160 |
| Ch. 9 | | Positions, Networks, Fields, and Transformations | | 174 |
| Pt. III | | Advanced Issues in GI and Cartography | | |
| Ch. 10 | | Cartographic Representation | | 193 |
| Ch. 17 | | Map Cultures, Misuses, and GI | | 221 |
| Ch. 12 | | Administration of Spaces | | 235 |
| Pt. IV | | GI Analysis: Understanding Our World | | |
| Ch. 13 | | GI Analysis and GIS | | 263 |
| Ch. 14 | | Geostatistics | | 271 |
| Ch. 15 | | Futures of GIS | | 290 |
| | | Index | | 301 |