Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users

by Cynthia A. Brewer

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589484405
Publisher:	Esri Press
Publication date:	12/28/2015
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	248
Sales rank:	551,898
Product dimensions:	9.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Designing Better Maps is a well-illustrated book with concisely but excellently written explanations on all the basic mapping considerations. It needs to have a place in the library of all new cartographers and is also worth a look by experienced cartographers who seek a refresher and a few new tips.”
Gretchen N. Peterson, Author of Cartographer’s Toolkit

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