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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.
Price: $71.99
Pages: 248
Publisher: Esri Press
Imprint: Esri Press
Publication Date:
28 March 2016
ISBN: 9781589484375
Format: eBook
BISACs:
Cartography, map-making and projections, Illustration and drawing software, Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing
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