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Book Information
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Designing Better Maps
A Guide for GIS Users
Brewer
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Contents:
- THE BIG PICTURE ON DESIGN
- Designing for map purpose and medium
- Audience
- Resolution and viewing distance
- Color quality
- Linking layout to map purpose
- Visual hierarchy in layout
- Decorative design elements
- Map projections in design
- Planning a layout
- Balancing empty spaces
- Refining a layout
- Experimentation and critique
- Choosing appropriate export options
- Raster export formats
- Vector export formats
- Distributing maps on the Web
- TYPE BASICS
- Fonts
- Categories of fonts
- Fonts in the Windows operating system
- Type styles and font families
- Special characters
- Label size
- Character size
- Character spacing
- Line spacing
- Type effects
- Callouts
- Shadows
- Halos
- EFFECTIVE TYPE IN MAP DESIGN
- Map text
- Graphic map text
- Dynamic labeling
- Annotation
- Labels as symbols
- Indicators of location
- Indicators of feature category
- Indicators of feature hierarchy
- Ambiguity and contradiction in classification with type
- Label placement
- Point label placement
- Line label placement
- Area label placement
- Dense label placement and trade-offs between rules
- COLOR BASICS
- Perceptual dimensions
- Hue
- Lightness
- Saturation
- Perceptual color systems
- Three-dimensional color spaces
- HSV: Hue-saturation-value
- Color cubes
- How to mix color
- General guidelines
- CMYK mixing
- RGB mixing
- COLOR DECISIONS FOR MAPPING
- Color schemes for maps
- Sequential schemes
- Diverging schemes
- Qualitative schemes
- Adjusting color selections
- Unexpected color changes
- Colors for the color blind
- Photocopying color maps
- Custom color ramps
- 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
- Wrapping up visual variables
- Visual variables for ordered data
- Visual variables for qualitative data
- BEYOND DEFAULT MARGINAL ELEMENTS
- Wise wording
- Hierarchy in text content
- Describing mapped calculations
- Attending to line logic
- Well-designed marginal elements
- Map legends
- Scale and direction indicators
- APPENDIX
- ColorBrewer
- RGB and CMYK specifications for nine sequential schemes with hue transitions in ColorBrewer
- RGB and CMYK specifications for additional sequential schemes in ColorBrewer
- RGB and CMYK specifications for diverging schemes in ColorBrewer
- RGB and CMYK specifications for qualitative schemes in ColorBrewer
- RGB and CMYK specifications for color-blind map readers
- Further resources
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