Designing Better Maps - A Guide for GIS Users

Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users, second edition, breaks down the myriad decisions involved in creating maps that communicate effectively. The second edition includes updated material and a new chapter on map publishing.

List 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

About the author

Cynthia A. Brewer

Summary

Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users, second edition, breaks down the myriad decisions involved in creating maps that communicate effectively. The second edition includes updated material and a new chapter on map publishing.

Product details

• Authors: cynthia Brewer, Cynthia A Brewer, Cynthia A. Brewer
• Publisher: ESRI Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.12.2015
• EAN: 9781589484405
• ISBN: 978-1-58948-440-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 253 mm x 254 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 1011 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > General, dictionaries; *Cartography; Map; Symbology; Esri