Designing Better Maps
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Cynthia A. Brewer (Útgáfa: 2)
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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.
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- Esri Press
- 9781589484375
- 9781589484405
- ePub
- 2
- Cynthia A. Brewer
- English
- 2016-03-28
- 100
- 2
- 2
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Chapter 1: Planning maps
- Designing for map purpose
- Audience
- Visual hierarchy in layout
- Planning a layout
- Balancing empty spaces
- Refining a layout
- Experimentation and critique
- Map projections in design
- Shape within layout
- Projections affect scale
- Choosing projection properties
- Chapter 2: Basemap basics
- Landforms
- Elevation
- Terrain shading
- Curvature
- Land use
- Imagery
- Land cover
- Property
- Vector base
- Water
- Boundaries
- Transportation
- Point data
- Customizing base to purpose
- Mapping through scale
- Terrain through scale
- Hydro through scale
- Place data through scale
- Generalization recap
- Chapter 3: Explaining maps
- Map legends
- Data legends
- Choropleth
- Qualitative area fills
- Dot (density)
- Isolines
- Proportioned symbols
- Segmented symbols
- Basemap legends
- Customized legends
- Wise wording
- Hierarchy in text content
- Describing mapped calculations
- Attending to line logic
- Refining marginal elements
- Scale indicators
- Direction indicators
- Overdoing decoration
- Chapter 4: Publishing and sharing maps
- Designing for map media
- Resolution
- Map size and viewing distance
- Color quality
- Choosing export options
- Raster export formats
- Vector export formats
- Transparency
- Map images on the web
- Tiled maps and caching
- Section 508 compliance
- Copyright in cartography
- Original work in cartography
- Rights and permissions
- Public licenses and open data
- Chapter 5: Type basics
- Fonts
- Font anatomy
- Categories of fonts
- Font choice
- Type styles and font families
- Special characters
- Font formats and permissions
- Label size
- Character size
- Kerning, tracking, and character spacing
- Line spacing
- Type effects
- Callouts
- Shadows
- Halos
- Chapter 6: Labeling maps
- Map text
- Graphic map text
- Dynamic labeling
- Annotation
- Labels as symbols
- Indicators of feature category
- Indicators of feature hierarchy
- Ambiguity and contradiction in classification with type
- Transparency and anti-aliasing
- Label placement
- Point label placement
- Line label placement
- Area label placement
- Dense label placement and trade-offs between rules
- Chapter 7: Color basics
- Perceptual dimensions
- Hue
- Lightness
- Saturation
- Perceptual color systems
- Three-dimensional color spaces
- Not HSV
- Color cubes
- How to mix color
- General guidelines
- CMYK mixing
- RGB mixing
- Chapter 8: Color on maps
- Color schemes for maps
- Sequential schemes
- Diverging schemes
- Qualitative schemes
- Bivariate color schemes
- Transparent combinations
- Sequential-sequential
- Diverging-diverging
- Qualitative-sequential
- Adjusting color selections
- Unexpected color changes
- Colors for the color-blind
- Custom color ramps
- Chapter 9: Customizing symbols
- Point symbols
- Point symbol size
- Point symbol shapes
- Point symbol angle
- Line and area symbols
- Line symbol size
- Line symbol patterns
- Area patterns
- Eight visual variables
- Visual variables for ordered data
- Visual variables for qualitative data
- Multivariate map symbols
- Overlaid symbols
- Bivariate symbols
- Visual variable pairs
- Put it all together
- Appendix
- Abbreviations
- Resources
- About the author
- Index