Autorentext

John Krygier, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Environment and Sustainability 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 curated the award-winning Power of Maps exhibition for the Smithsonian and writes widely about maps. He is a former professor of design at North Carolina State University.

Klappentext

Prized for its creative design, original art, and playful, accessible writing, Making Maps is now in a thoroughly updated fourth edition. The text is restructured to emphasize the importance of the map making process. All components of map making are covered and are brought to life in the expanded graphic novella threaded through the text

Inhalt

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. Color on Maps
9. Words on Maps
10. Map Generalization and Classification
11. Map Symbolization
12. Map Symbol Abstraction
    A Note to the Users of Making Maps
    Acknowledgments / About the Authors
    Index