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| Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users | 
 enlarge | Author: Cynthia A. Brewer
Publisher: Esri Press
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (10 reviews)
Sales Rank: 31129
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 220
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 1589480899
Dewey Decimal Number: 526
EAN: 9781589480896
ASIN: 1589480899
Publication Date: August 1, 2005
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Product Description
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
Map visualization 101 October 25, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book addresses all major topics needed when considering what color to assign to a group of layers, which symbols and scales to use, how to annotate maps and how to complement maps with text boxes.
It is well written so it's easy reading and does not require extensive background from other fields.
Getting from here to there is simple enough by scanning the chapter index.
Great reference for map designers, both beginners and experienced ones.
Designing Better Maps August 9, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
An excellent book, but a bit tedious. Gives the GIS user an excellent review of what makes a map visually useful. GIS users aren't necessarily the best cartographers and this can help them along
 Descent for beginners May 10, 2007
This book reviews the very basics of map design and hardly touches on cartographic representations. It is probably a good starting point for first timers to GIS and mapping, but for the average map maker/cartographer it is too rudimentary.
 Designing Better Maps November 4, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Since I am relatively new to the world of GIS Mapping, this book was an invaluable aid to designing more attractive maps. It's a beautifully laid-out book with lots of common-sense tips in it. Well worth the price!
Linda Pierce
Pray, Montana
Call it training March 15, 2006
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you analyze data and make maps, this is well worth the money.
It helps if you use ArcGIS too....
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