Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS | 
|  | | | Title: | Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS | | Author: | John Krygier
Denis Wood | | Publisher: | The Guilford Press | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 17 August, 2005 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1593852002 / 9781593852009 | | List Price: | $45.00 | | You Save: | $4.50 | | Amazon Price: | $40.50 | |
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Product Description
A concise, down-to-earth guide to creating maps using GIS, this book is visually engaging, clear, and compelling--exactly how an effective map should be. 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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Customer Reviews:
• A Real Gem 18 May, 2006
This book should be required reading for anyone who is allowed to make maps with a GIS. It's actually a pretty quick read (3-4 hours for me) thanks to its concise and tightly organized text set in context of some very clean and simple graphics. There is even a healthy dash of humor (so welcome in technical writing), genuinely funny but always in service of the text.
Read this book to avoid the classic mistakes that all neophyte mapmakers commit.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1YICYWN7MR0CR
• Format Makes This Book A Disappointment 13 December, 2007
I was honestly disappointed with this book, so much so, that I returned it to the seller. Although the subject matter it contains is quite good, the layout and presentation leave a great deal to be desired, especially for a book that is focused on cartography and which costs over $40.
My 2 greatest irritations with it were the following: 1) There is virtually no color in the book, with the exception of a few color plates in the middle. 2) Although the book's dimensions are roughly 9" x 7", the material contained inside appears to have been formatted for a small paperback. On average, it appears each page contains more than 50% whitespace. It feels like you are looking at a reduced slide show presentation that was converted into a grayscale printout.
My advice to prospective buyers of this book is to buy a copy of Monmonier's classic, "How to Lie with Maps", and Cynthia Brewer's excellent, "Designing Better Maps - A Guide for GIS Users" instead. The cost will be about the same - for 2 books.
To the authors of this book I say, "Nice try, but c'mon, you can do better than this. You're cartographers for Pete's sake!"
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1UACBNUY1KUSH
• Very Limited In Scope 14 August, 2008
This is not a bad book, but the title and description bear almost no relation to its content. The audience of the book seems to be people who have occasional use for maps, but don't need a very professional product. The text is limited to thematic map design; there's very little about how different map projections work or how geographic features would be represented. There is consideration of some design elements, but the examples used were very limited in scope and somewhat artificial. Finally, there's almost no information about GIS, other than that it exists and can be expensive.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A325AQEG8LP85D
• Nice Book 05 April, 2007
I'm newly employed with GIS. I use ArcMap to make maps of properties for a real estate developer. This book was nice in many ways. It is very informative regarding styles, helping me create professional looking maps at my job. It was detailed enough to be informative, but was not overloaded by any means. The book was a quick read. It did not bog me down in boring details. It was well written, well organized, and well designed. I like the book and recommend it.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AHXEW3TYV4SID
• Not Very Comprehensive 05 August, 2007
This was not quite the book I was looking for. It doesn't cover the topics very comprehensively. I was hoping for a book which talked more specifically about map design(i.e. colors, placements and such). The book is ok if you have never read about this topic before. For me who has read about this topic before it only took about 2-3 hours to read it through.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2JISWQB0XMGDV
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