Making Maps

Third Edition
A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS

John Krygier and Denis Wood

A Paperback Originale-bookprint + e-book
A Paperback Original
August 2, 2016
ISBN 9781462509980
Price: $59.00
293 Pages
Size: 7" x 10"
order
e-book
July 15, 2016
PDF ?
Price: $59.00
293 Pages
order
print + e-book
A Paperback Original + e-Book (PDF) ?
Price: $118.00 $70.80
293 Pages
order
Professors: free copies available for adoption consideration
Download an e-book copy now or order a print copy

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.