Redlands, California—April 14, 2014— Esri Press was honored with the prestigious AAG Publication Award at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting on April 12. Past recipients include the University of Chicago Press and Rand McNally and Company. The AAG newsletter states, "This AAG Publication Award is conferred on Esri in recognition of exceptional and outstanding contributions to geography through a vigorous and prolific publication program."

Esri Press is a department within Esri, the leading developer of geographic information system (GIS) software. The department was created in 1984 and since then has published more than 100 books on geography-related topics, including specialized map books, textbooks, and books about the science and application of GIS technology. In addition, it has reissued cartography classics including Arthur Robinson's The Look of Maps: An Examination of Cartographic Design, Eduard Imhof's Cartographic Relief Presentation, and Jacques Bertin's Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps.

"I am very proud that Esri Press has been honored by the Association of American Geographers with this award," says Peter Adams, Esri Press department manager. "It reinforces my belief that our efforts really are making a difference in this strategic field."

For more information about Esri Press or to download its current catalog, visit  esri.com/esripress.

About Esri Press

Esri Press publishes books on GIS, cartography, and related topics. The complete selection of GIS titles from Esri Press can be found on the web at  esri.com/esripress.

About Esri

Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, Esri software is used in more than 350,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. Esri is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us at  www.esri.com.


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