Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS Review
Very Helpful book.
As a GIS student at the university of Washington, this book was recommended by our professor to help design our maps.
It has proved to be very useful.
More color would have been nice, but book is still worth it's price.
Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS Overview
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. The author's website (http://makingmaps.owu.edu) offers excerpts from each chapter, links to related sites, and a regularly updated blog on the topic of making maps.
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Customer Reviews
Keep Looking - Prill Lake - Oregon, USA
I bought this based on the reviews here at Amazon. This book presents some good ideas, most of which are intuitive, and in totality makes for a decent desk reference for the cartographer. However, as someone else has pointed out, the formatting of the information on the page is unimpressive and I would add, confounding and hard to read.
Most of the example maps in this book are black & white, and somewhat randomly placed in a sea of white space. After reading I'm still wondering what the author is trying to say with his stylistic choices. In either case it certainly weakens Krygier's point of view on 'a Visual Guide to map Design' imo. 'General mapping ideas presented in a pseudo-minimalist fashion' would make for a better title. Props for including a nude though.
-> Buy one of Brewer's books, you won't be disappointed.
good product - Benjamin E. Massey - Mulberry, AR
this is a good product. it has nice color maps and very visual. lots of good ideas and techniques.
Very limited in scope - Adam Baker - Tucson, AZ
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.
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