Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users [Paperback]

Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users, second edition, is a comprehensive guide to creating maps that communicate effectively. InDesigning 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 Mapsalso describes the author's ColorBrewer application, an online color selection tool. The second edition includes a new chapter on map publishing.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
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.