Making Maps, Second Edition: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS

by Denis Wood and John Krygier

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609181662
• ISBN13: 9781609181666
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

good product

this is a good product. it has nice color maps and very visual. lots of good ideas and techniques.

Very Helpful

Very Helpful book. As a GIS student at the university of Washington, this book was recommended by our professor to help design our maps. It has proved to be very useful. More color would have been nice, but book is still worth it's price.

Nice book

I'm newly employed with GIS. I use ArcMap to make maps of properties for a real estate developer. This book was nice in many ways. It is very informative regarding styles, helping me create professional looking maps at my job. It was detailed enough to be informative, but was not overloaded by any means. The book was a quick read. It did not bog me down in boring details. It was well written, well organized, and well designed. I like the book and recommend it.

a real gem

This book should be required reading for anyone who is allowed to make maps with a GIS. It's actually a pretty quick read (3-4 hours for me) thanks to its concise and tightly organized text set in context of some very clean and simple graphics. There is even a healthy dash of humor (so welcome in technical writing), genuinely funny but always in service of the text. Read this book to avoid the classic mistakes that all neophyte mapmakers commit.

Simple and Effective

While I do a lot of GIS work and never took a cartography course when I started my career in geography research work. After searching through the local geography dept library, and searching the university bookstore for something simple, practical, and effective, I have to say "Making Maps" works great. My background lies in biological and environmental work so there's quite a few times where I've been asked to make maps from a variety of different data sources for different audiences (i.e. scientific conferences, presentation diagrams, screenshots for emails, etc). Krygier & Wood's book effectively covers numerous cartographic principles while keeping in mind all the changes in the modern GIS world: i.e. the technological advances in mapping and geographic software, professional printing requirements, and the use of color in maps and how it may "play out" to different cultures around the world. I really enjoyed reading this book over the holidays and found a lot of great mapping tips and techniques in it. It's a very strong visual guide and it's a lot more challenging to read than ESRI's simple intro guides. It's also more fun to read than a cartographic textbook! The list of other references at the end of the chapter are a good bonus. But my favorite line in the whole book had to be on page 212 (choropleth maps) when the authors recommend to "please use your brain when making maps". Hilarious! There's gems like this in a few places through the book. A good read for the graphic artist in every cartographer and academically solid. It'll be a reference book on my workshelf for years to come.