Designing Better Maps (eBook)

A Guide for GIS Users

Cynthia A. Brewer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016 | 2., Second Edition
248 Seiten
ESRI Press (Verlag)
978-1-58948-437-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.3.2016
• Verlagsort: Redlands
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Office Programme
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: cartographer • *cartography • ESRI • gift for map maker • GIS users • map • map creation • Map Design • symbology
• ISBN-10: 1-58948-437-1 / 1589484371
• ISBN-13: 978-1-58948-437-5 / 9781589484375