Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users
Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users by Cynthia Brewer, published by Esri Press in August 2005, offers a comprehensive exploration of effective map design tailored for various mapping objectives. This first edition, spanning 220 pages, presents practical insights into creating balanced map layouts and optimizing export options for different media, ensuring that maps can be easily edited in other applications.
Readers will find detailed guidance on enhancing map readability through various typographic techniques, including character spacing, leading, and the use of callouts and shadows. The book also covers essential font tools available in the Windows operating system, providing tips for creating special characters in map text. Additionally, it explains how cartographic conventions influence the placement of labels for point, line, and area features, making it a valuable resource for those interested in cartography.
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Describing how to build balanced map layouts suited to varied mapping goals, this guide focuses on export options that suit different media and can be edited in other applications. The wide range of text characteristics needed for expert map design as well as how to improve map readability with type effects such as character spacing, leading, callouts, shadows, and halos is detailed. Tips are included for using font tools in the Windows operating system, such as creating special characters in map text, as is information on using text characteristics to indicate feature locations, categories, and hierarchies on maps. How cartographic conventions guide placement of labels for point, line, and area features are also explained.
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