Book Title: Making Effective Maps: Cartographic Visualization for GIS

Authors: Sarah Schlosser, GISP

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Book Description: The creation of this work was supported by Open CU Boulder 2023-2024, a grant funded by the Colorado Department of Higher Education with additional support from the CU Office of the President, CU Office of Academic Affairs, CU Boulder Office of the Provost, and CU Boulder University Libraries.

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Book Description

Making Effective Maps: Cartographic Design for GIS, serves as a primer on the fundamentals of cartographic visualization within the context of a geographic information system (GIS). Twelve chapters cover topics including types of GIS data, layout design, thematic symbol use, generalization, visual variables, and classification systems. A variety of graphic and map examples are included to demonstrate the concepts.

Authors

Sarah Schlosser, GISP

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Making Effective Maps: Cartographic Visualization for GIS Copyright © 2024 by Sarah Schlosser, GISP is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Subject

Cartography, map-making and projections

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Title
Making Effective Maps: Cartographic Visualization for GIS
Authors
Sarah Schlosser, GISP
Editors
Behzad Vahedi Torghabeh, PhD Candidate
License

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Making Effective Maps: Cartographic Visualization for GIS Copyright © 2024 by Sarah Schlosser, GISP is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Primary Subject
Cartography, map-making and projections
Additional Subject(s)
Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing
Institution
University of Colorado Boulder