Designing Better Maps by Brewer, Cynthia A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Preface to the second edition Preface to the first edition Chapter 1: Planning maps

Designing for map purpose

Audience Visual hierarchy in layout

Planning a layout

Balancing empty spaces Refining a layout Experimentation and critique

Map projections in design

Shape within layout Projections affect scale Choosing projection properties

Chapter 2: Basemap basics

Landforms

Elevation Terrain shading Curvature

Land use

Imagery Land cover Property

Vector base

Water Boundaries Transportation Point data

Customizing base to purpose Mapping through scale

Terrain through scale Hydro through scale Place data through scale Generalization recap

Chapter 3: Explaining maps

Map legends

Data legends

Choropleth Qualitative area fills Dot (density) Isolines Proportioned symbols Segmented symbols

Basemap legends Customized legends

Wise wording

Hierarchy in text content Describing mapped calculations Attending to line logic

Refining marginal elements

Scale indicators Direction indicators Overdoing decoration

Chapter 4: Publishing and sharing maps

Designing for map media

Resolution Map size and viewing distance Color quality

Choosing export options

Raster export formats Vector export formats Transparency

Map images on the web

Tiled maps and caching Section 508 compliance

Original work in cartography Rights and permissions Public licenses and open data

Chapter 5: Type basics

Fonts

Font anatomy Categories of fonts Font choice Type styles and font families Special characters Font formats and permissions

Label size

Character size Kerning, tracking, and character spacing Line spacing

Type effects

Callouts Shadows Halos

Chapter 6: Labeling maps

Map text

Graphic map text Dynamic labeling Annotation

Labels as symbols

Indicators of feature category Indicators of feature hierarchy Ambiguity and contradiction in classification with type Transparency and anti-aliasing

Label placement

Point label placement Line label placement Area label placement Dense label placement and trade-offs between rules

Chapter 7: Color basics

Perceptual dimensions

Hue Lightness Saturation

Perceptual color systems

Three-dimensional color spaces Not HSV Color cubes

How to mix color

General guidelines CMYK mixing RGB mixing

Chapter 8: Color on maps

Color schemes for maps

Sequential schemes Diverging schemes Qualitative schemes

Bivariate color schemes

Transparent combinations Sequential-sequential Diverging-diverging Qualitative-sequential

Adjusting color selections

Unexpected color changes Colors for the color-blind Custom color ramps

Chapter 9: Customizing symbols

Point symbols

Point symbol size Point symbol shapes Point symbol angle

Line and area symbols

Line symbol size Line symbol patterns Area patterns

Eight visual variables

Visual variables for ordered data Visual variables for qualitative data

Multivariate map symbols

Overlaid symbols Bivariate symbols Visual variable pairs Put it all together

Appendix Abbreviations Resources About the author Index

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