Designed Maps: A Sourcebook for GIS Users | 
|  | | | Title: | Designed Maps: A Sourcebook for GIS Users | | Author: | Cynthia A Brewer | | Publisher: | ESRI Press | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 01 March, 2008 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1589481607 / 9781589481602 | | List Price: | $39.95 | | You Save: | $13.58 | | Amazon Price: | $26.37 | |
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This sequel to the highly successful Designing Maps, offers a graphics-intensive presentation of published maps, providing cartographic examples that GIS users can then adapt for their own needs. Each chapter characterizes a common design decision and includes a demonstration map, which is annotated with specific information needed to reproduce the design, such as text fonts, sizes and styles; line weights, colors, and patterns; marker symbol fonts, sizes, and colors; and fill colors and patterns. Visual hierarchies and the purpose of each map are considered with the audience in mind, drawing a clear connection between intent and design. The book also includes a valuable task index that explains what ArcGIS 9 tools to use for desired cartographic effects. From experienced cartographers to those who make GIS maps only occasionally, all GIS users will find this book to be an indispensable resource.
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• A Powerful Sourcebook Any Gis Collection Needs. 06 September, 2008
College-level libraries strong in either cartography or GIS mapping design will appreciated DESIGNED MAPS: SOURCEBOOK FOR GIS USERS, which offers easy basic guidelines for creating the cartographic effects using ESRI ArcGis Desktop software. These designs show how a dataset may be portrayed by a map, offering demonstration maps with details needed to achieve effective designs. The result is a powerful sourcebook any GIS collection needs.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A14OJS0VWMOSWO
• Designing Maps 03 June, 2008
Enjoyable collection of maps created to inform. I found the text very useful for my purposes, and an interesting way to compare various map presentation styles. This fits well with her previous book on color use on maps.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2O7FV09K0Y1ZJ
• Great Source Of Ideas 29 August, 2008
As an experienced GIS user with no formal education in geography/cartography, I found this book to be right down my alley. It's highly visual, but this is no coffee table book - the text actually explains the choices presented to mapmakers, and you get a sense for what works in which situations.
Each of the six sections addresses a particular broad category of map (reference, thematic, special-purpose, etc.), and each has one map that the author has reproduced in four different styles to emphasize different features or optimize for printing. Several other example maps then follow, each with a paragraph to explain some of the techniques used in its production. The book ends with a section that shows how to recreate the effects in the book using ArcMap, which exposed me to features I didn't know existed and lots of new ideas on how to use the familiar dialogs.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has a basic feel for how to use GIS software to make maps but doesn't necessarily feel the need to delve into cartographic theory.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3JCR3FYQRYLF2
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