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Until now, the field has lacked a concise, down-to-earth guide for people who must make effective maps using GIS. Making Maps is visually engaging, clear, and compelling - exactly how maps should be if they are to meet your goals. Featuring over 300 maps and other figures, including instructive examples of both good and poor design choices, the book covers everything from locating and processing data to making decisions about layout, map symbols, color, and type. For students, professionals, and others who want to make better maps, this is an essential, uniquely helpful resource.

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9781593852009

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This detailed guide to elementary mapping in the age of digital information, Internet resources, and geographic information systems is simple, clear, and comprehensive. The book's lucid style and dramatic, apposite, and often funny illustrations make it a novel and effective resource in a culture where the map is a ubiquitous presence. More than an instruction manual on making maps, it is also a guide to their critical reading and interpretation. Making Maps will be invaluable for users as well as creators of maps at the university level and beyond. --Denis Cosgrove, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles <br> Although it looks deceptively simple--like the textbook equivalent of a graphic novel-- Making Maps condenses all the essential principles of map making and the geographic concepts behind them into a remarkably accessible, witty, engaging book. The text is crystal clear and irreverent, the hundreds of illustrations inspiring and memorable. Only Krygie

What makes the book unique is that on each page illustrations highlight the idea under discussion, the text merely works in a supportive, explanatory role....A book that is heavy on example and short on theory, Making Maps is a worthwhile investment for any who are looking to produce better maps without having to take a Cartography 101 course. -- Cartography (Paul Heersink, Jan. 7, 2006) Should be examined by anyone charged with communicating issues and ideas through geography. 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. -- Journal of Planning Literature <br><p> 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. -- Journal of the American Planning Association <p> It's a comprehensive manual that explains how you can obtain data, organise and transform it, and query its accuracy. It shows how to make decisions about map layout, generalisation, symbolisation, color, and type. There's an authentic feel for real-world practice in the way theauthors illustrate how database files, graphic design tools, image processing software, animation and web scripting software are typically combined to make a cartographic vision work. It's a highly illustrated book with each page having as much space devoted to maps and other figures as text....This makes the information succinct and immediately accessible, whether you're reading from cover to cover or using the book as a reference work....There are some brilliant literary map quotations that accompany each chapter and some intriguing un-annotated maps to consider. This book adds to the growing list of Guilford Press 'cartographic classics.' -- International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education

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John Krygier, Department of Geology and Geography, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH Denis Wood, Raleigh, NC

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