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Prized for its creative design, original art, and playful, accessible writing, Making Maps is now in a thoroughly updated fourth edition. The text is restructured to emphasize the importance of the map making process. All components of map making are covered and are brought to life in the expanded graphic novella threaded through the text. Updates include new coverage of data aggregation, artificial intelligence, feminist and Indigenous perspectives, map making workflow, and more. Design choices are emphasized and linked to the reasons for making a map. Featuring more than 80 color illustrations and a unique layout, the book includes an annotated map exemplar used throughout the text, extensive map examples, and a companion website. New to This Edition *New or expanded topics: graduated symbol maps, multivariate choropleth maps, visual storytelling, maps and gerrymandering, artificial intelligence, workflow, and more. *Integration of practical ideas from Indigenous and feminist perspectives. *Coverage of color and type is shifted earlier in the book, and the chapters on map symbolization and abstraction now conclude the book, with many compelling new maps.

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""Making Maps is a gorgeous introduction to cartographic design and geovisual storytelling. Its quality means that I have a difficult time deciding which class gets the pleasure to read it. Making Maps is compelling for a cartography class, but also outside of a class for anyone who wants to learn how best to make and understand maps.”--Nathan Burtch, PhD, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University ""Krygier and Wood’s text encourages critical thinking rather than absorbing information--and that made it by far the best choice for my cartographic design course. The mix of visual approaches, including the graphic novella, appeals to a broad mix of students.""--Barbara Trapido-Lurie, MA, Research Professional Emerita, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University ""The advantage of this text is that the variety of examples and mapped data allow you to engage students in conversations about different cultural or philosophical approaches to mapping. It is an excellent introductory resource for students who are new to mapping. The book covers all the essential topics, with excellent visual examples, consideration of different map audiences and map purposes, and an emphasis on map design that makes it relevant no matter what mapping software you use.""--Melinda Shimizu, PhD, Department of Geography, State University of New York at Cortland ""This book is very useful for helping students understand the driving questions behind communicating geographic information, such as 'Who is my audience?' and 'What is my message?' It also addresses questions about how to design and style maps; for example, 'Which projection should I use?' Students find the playful tone and interesting examples to be quite engaging--I have not heard a single complaint about the text.""--Blake Walker, PhD, Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg, Germany-

"""A comprehensive manual that explains how you can obtain data, organize and transform it, and query its accuracy....This book adds to the growing list of Guilford Press 'cartographic classics.'"" (on the first edition)-- ""International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education"" (1/1/2006 12:00:00 AM) ""A worthwhile investment for any who are looking to produce better maps without having to take a Cartography 101 course."" (on the first edition)-- ""Cartography"" (1/7/2006 12:00:00 AM) ""Authored by two respected cartographers, this volume provides comprehensive and thorough instruction on virtually every aspect of map design. It is a great book for students who are just starting to create maps and for practitioners needing a refresher on the fundamentals of map design....The book's major strength is the enormous amount of practical how-to information that is packed into each section....A distinctive characteristic of the book is its slightly irreverent or whimsical bent....This volume is a valuable nuts-and-bolts introduction to map making that can help both students and practitioners create effective and insightful cartography."" (on the first edition)-- ""Journal of Planning Literature"" (8/1/2006 12:00:00 AM) ""I find this book's approach to key geospatial concepts to be extremely effective, user-friendly, and just plain helpful....Delivers useful map making insights, quickly, simply, and appropriately."" (on the first edition)-- ""Journal of the American Planning Association"" (1/1/2007 12:00:00 AM) ""The book is well written, utilizing language that can be easily understood by those with little or no experience in the art and science of cartography....Allows readers to quickly grasp the basic concepts of map making and would serve as an excellent resource to anyone interested in map design or as a supplement to texts that utilize a more theoretical approach."" (on the second edition)-- ""Photogrammetric Engineering and Remoting Sensing"" (5/1/2012 12:00:00 AM) ""The book looks great, and Krygier and Wood simplify the ideas in a practical and useful manner. I am using it as a key text for a year 2 map design course."" (on the second edition)-- ""Environment and Planning B"" (1/1/2012 12:00:00 AM) ""Making Maps is a gorgeous introduction to cartographic design and geovisual storytelling. Its quality means that I have a difficult time deciding which class gets the pleasure to read it. Making Maps is compelling for a cartography class, but also outside of a class for anyone who wants to learn how best to make and understand maps.""--Nathan Burtch, PhD, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University ""Krygier and Wood's text encourages critical thinking rather than absorbing information--and that made it by far the best choice for my cartographic design course. The mix of visual approaches, including the graphic novella, appeals to a broad mix of students.""--Barbara Trapido-Lurie, MA, Research Professional Emerita, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University ""The advantage of this text is that the variety of examples and mapped data allow you to engage students in conversations about different cultural or philosophical approaches to mapping. It is an excellent introductory resource for students who are new to mapping. The book covers all the essential topics, with excellent visual examples, consideration of different map audiences and map purposes, and an emphasis on map design that makes it relevant no matter what mapping software you use.""--Melinda Shimizu, PhD, Department of Geography, State University of New York at Cortland ""This book is very useful for helping students understand the driving questions behind communicating geographic information, such as 'Who is my audience?' and 'What is my message?' It also addresses questions about how to design and style maps; for example, 'Which projection should I use?' Students find the playful tone and interesting examples to be quite engaging--I have not heard a single complaint about the text.""--Blake Walker, PhD, Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-Universit�t Erlangen-N�rnberg, Germany"

""Making Maps is a gorgeous introduction to cartographic design and geovisual storytelling. Its quality means that I have a difficult time deciding which class gets the pleasure to read it. Making Maps is compelling for a cartography class, but also outside of a class for anyone who wants to learn how best to make and understand maps.”--Nathan Burtch, PhD, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University ""Krygier and Wood’s text encourages critical thinking rather than absorbing information--and that made it by far the best choice for my cartographic design course. The mix of visual approaches, including the graphic novella, appeals to a broad mix of students.""--Barbara Trapido-Lurie, MA, Research Professional Emerita, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University ""The advantage of this text is that the variety of examples and mapped data allow you to engage students in conversations about different cultural or philosophical approaches to mapping. It is an excellent introductory resource for students who are new to mapping. The book covers all the essential topics, with excellent visual examples, consideration of different map audiences and map purposes, and an emphasis on map design that makes it relevant no matter what mapping software you use.""--Melinda Shimizu, PhD, Department of Geography, State University of New York at Cortland ""This book is very useful for helping students understand the driving questions behind communicating geographic information, such as 'Who is my audience?' and 'What is my message?' It also addresses questions about how to design and style maps--for example, 'Which projection should I use?' Students find the playful tone and interesting examples to be quite engaging--I have not heard a single complaint about the text.""--Blake Walker, PhD, Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg, Germany-

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John Krygier, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Environment and Sustainability at Ohio Wesleyan University, with teaching and research specializations in cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), and environmental and human geography. He has made lots of maps and published on map design, educational technology, cultural geography, multimedia in cartography, planning, the history of cartography, and participatory GIS. Denis Wood, PhD, is an independent scholar living in Raleigh, North Carolina. He curated the award-winning Power of Maps exhibition for the Smithsonian and writes widely about maps. He is a former professor of design at North Carolina State University.

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