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.
| ISBN: | 9781589484405 |
| Publication date: | 11th February 2016 |
| Author: | Cynthia A. Brewer |
| Publisher: | Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.,U.S. an imprint of ESRI Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 260 pages |
| Genres: |
Cartography, map-making and projections Presentation graphics software Geographical information systems and remote sensing |