Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS

by John Krygier PhD, Denis Wood PhD

Overview

Lauded for its accessibility and beautiful design, this text has given thousands of students and professionals the tools to create effective, compelling maps. Using a wealth of illustrations--with 74 in full color--to elucidate each concisely presented point, the revised and updated third edition continues to emphasize how design choices relate to the reasons for making a map and its intended purpose. All components of map making are covered: titles, labels, legends, visual hierarchy, font selection, how to turn phenomena into visual data, data organization, symbolization, and more. Innovative pedagogical features include a short graphic novella, good design/poor design map examples, end-of-chapter suggestions for further reading, and an annotated map examplar that runs throughout the book.

New to This Edition
*Expanded coverage of using mobile digital devices to collect data for maps, including discussions of location services and locational privacy.
*New and revised topics: how to do sketch maps, how map categories and symbols have changed over time, designing maps on desktop computers and mobile devices, human perception and color, and more.
*Separate, expanded chapter on map symbol abstraction.
*Additional case studies of compelling phenomena such as children's traffic fatalities based on race, the spread of tropical diseases, and the 2012 presidential election.
*Many additional color illustrations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781462527243
Publisher:	Guilford Publications, Inc.
Publication date:	06/27/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	293
File size:	247 MB
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About the Author

John Krygier, PhD, teaches in the Department of Geology and Geography at Ohio Wesleyan University, with teaching and research specializations in cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), and environmental and human geography. He has made lots of maps and published on map design, educational technology, cultural geography, multimedia in cartography, planning, the history of cartography, and participatory GIS.

Denis Wood, PhD, is an independent scholar living in Raleigh, North Carolina. He lectures widely and is the author of a dozen books and over 150 papers. From 1974 to 1996, he taught in the School of Design at North Carolina State University. In 1992, he curated the Power of Maps exhibition for the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design (remounted at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, in 1994), for which he wrote the book The Power of Maps. His other books include Rethinking the Power of Maps; Making Maps, Third Edition (coauthored with John Krygier); and Weaponizing Maps (coauthored with Joe Bryan).

Table of Contents

1. How to Make a Map
2. What's Your Map For?
3. Mappable Data
4. Map Making Tools
5. Geographic Framework
6. The Big Picture of Map Design
7. The Inner Workings of Map Design
8. Map Generalization and Classification
9. Map Symbolization
10. Map Symbol Abstraction
11. Words on Maps
12. Color on Maps
Index

Interviews

Students and instructors in geography and related disciplines; professionals who use GIS in their work. Serves as a text for GIS and cartography courses within geography and other disciplines, including environmental sciences, planning, engineering, archaeology, and sociology.

Editorial Reviews

"Authored by two respected cartographers, this volume provides comprehensive and thorough instruction on virtually every aspect of map design. It is a great book for students who are just starting to create maps and for practitioners needing a refresher on the fundamentals of map design....The book's major strength is the enormous amount of practical how-to information that is packed into each section....A distinctive characteristic of the book is its slightly irreverent or whimsical bent....This volume is a valuable nuts-and-bolts introduction to map making that can help both students and practitioners create effective and insightful cartography." (on the first edition)

Journal of Planning Literature

"The book is well written, utilizing language that can be easily understood by those with little or no experience in the art and science of cartography....Allows readers to quickly grasp the basic concepts of map making and would serve as an excellent resource to anyone interested in map design or as a supplement to texts that utilize a more theoretical approach." (on the second edition)

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remoting Sensing

"I find this book's approach to key geospatial concepts to be extremely effective, user-friendly, and just plain helpful....Delivers useful map making insights, quickly, simply, and appropriately." (on the first edition)

Journal of the American Planning Association

"A worthwhile investment for any who are looking to produce better maps without having to take a Cartography 101 course." (on the first edition)

Cartography

"The book is well written, utilizing language that can be easily understood by those with little or no experience in the art and science of cartography....Allows readers to quickly grasp the basic concepts of map-making and would serve as an excellent resource to anyone interested in map design or as a supplement to texts that utilize a more theoretical approach." (on the second edition)

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

"A comprehensive manual that explains how you can obtain data, organize and transform it, and query its accuracy....This book adds to the growing list of Guilford Press 'cartographic classics.'" (on the first edition)

International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education

"Making Maps is a gorgeous introduction to cartographic design and geovisual storytelling. Its quality means that I have a difficult time deciding which class gets the pleasure to read it. Making Maps is compelling for a cartography class, but also outside of a class for anyone who wants to learn how best to make and understand maps.”—Nathan Burtch, PhD, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University

"Krygier and Wood’s text encourages critical thinking rather than absorbing information—and that made it by far the best choice for my cartographic design course. The mix of visual approaches, including the graphic novella, appeals to a broad mix of students."—Barbara Trapido-Lurie, MA, Research Professional Emerita, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University

"The advantage of this text is that the variety of examples and mapped data allow you to engage students in conversations about different cultural or philosophical approaches to mapping. It is an excellent introductory resource for students who are new to mapping. The book covers all the essential topics, with excellent visual examples, consideration of different map audiences and map purposes, and an emphasis on map design that makes it relevant no matter what mapping software you use."—Melinda Shimizu, PhD, Department of Geography, State University of New York at Cortland

"This book is very useful for helping students understand the driving questions behind communicating geographic information, such as 'Who is my audience?' and 'What is my message?' It also addresses questions about how to design and style maps; for example, 'Which projection should I use?' Students find the playful tone and interesting examples to be quite engaging—I have not heard a single complaint about the text."—Blake Walker, PhD, Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg, Germany

From the Publisher

"The book looks great, and Krygier and Wood simplify the ideas in a practical and useful manner. I am using it as a key text for a year 2 map design course." (on the second edition)

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