Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users

Brewer, Cynthia A.

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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A definitive cartographic design manual by the creator of ColorBrewer, teaching essential principles of typography, visual hierarchy, and color theory for mapmakers.

EAN

9781589484405

Publisher

Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.,U.S.

Published

11 February 2016

Pages

260

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