Designing Better Maps
A Guide for GIS Users
2nd Edition
Published on 28. March 2016
248 pages
978-1-58948-437-5 (ISBN)
Description
Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users, second edition, is a comprehensive guide to creating maps that communicate effectively. In Designing Better Maps, renowned cartographer Cynthia A. Brewer guides readers through the basics of good cartography, including layout design, scales, projections, color selection, font choices, and symbol placement. Designing Better Maps also describes the author's ColorBrewer application, an online color selection tool. The second edition includes a new chapter on map publishing.
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02/2016
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Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.,U.S.
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Cynthia A. Brewer is a professor and chair of the Department of Geography at Pennsylvania State University. She teaches introductory cartography and map design courses and advises graduate students working in cartography. She has worked as a map and atlas design consultant for the US Census Bureau, National Cancer Institute, National Center for Health Statistics, and National Park Service. She is the author of Designed Maps: A Sourcebook for GIS Users (Esri Press 2008).
Content
Contents
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
Chapter 1: Planning maps
Chapter 2: Basemap basics
Chapter 3: Explaining maps
Chapter 4: Publishing and sharing maps
Chapter 5: Type basics
Chapter 6: Labeling maps
Chapter 7: Color basics
Chapter 8: Color on maps
Chapter 9: Customizing symbols
Appendix: ColorBrewer
Abbreviations
Resources
About the author
Index
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
Chapter 1: Planning maps
Chapter 2: Basemap basics
Chapter 3: Explaining maps
Chapter 4: Publishing and sharing maps
Chapter 5: Type basics
Chapter 6: Labeling maps
Chapter 7: Color basics
Chapter 8: Color on maps
Chapter 9: Customizing symbols
Appendix: ColorBrewer
Abbreviations
Resources
About the author
Index
