Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users - Softcover

Brewer, Cynthia A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1589484401 ISBN 13: 9781589484405

Verlag: Esri Press, 2015

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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. The second edition includes a new chapter on map publishing.

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Cynthia A. Brewer is a professor and chair of the Department of Geography at Pennsylvania State University. She teaches introductory cartography and map design courses and advises graduate students working in cartography. She has worked as a map and atlas design consultant for the US Census Bureau, National Cancer Institute, National Center for Health Statistics, and National Park Service. She is the author of Designed Maps: A Sourcebook for GIS Users (Esri Press 2008).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Esri Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1589484401
• ISBN 13: 9781589484405
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
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