Designing better maps : a guide for GIS users / Cynthia A. Brewer.
2016
GA105.3 .B74 2016 (Mapit)
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Title
Designing better maps : a guide for GIS users / Cynthia A. Brewer.
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
9781589484405 (paperback)
1589484401 (paperback)
9781589484375 (electronic book)
1589484401 (paperback)
9781589484375 (electronic book)
Published
Redlands, California : Esri Press, [2016]
Language
English
Description
xvii, 231 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm
Call Number
GA105.3 .B74 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
526.0285
Summary
"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, publishing maps, projections, color selection, font choices, label placement, and map symbol construction. Designing Better Maps also describes the author's ColorBrewer application, an online color selection tool. The second edition includes a new sections on preparing basemap content and combining multiple variables on maps."--Back cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-223) and index.
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Table of Contents
1. Planning maps
2. Basemap basics
3. Explaining maps
4. Publishing and sharing maps
5. Type basics
6. Labeling maps
7. Color basics
8. Color on maps
9. Customizing symbols.
2. Basemap basics
3. Explaining maps
4. Publishing and sharing maps
5. Type basics
6. Labeling maps
7. Color basics
8. Color on maps
9. Customizing symbols.