{"product_id":"9781462527243","title":"Making Maps, Third Edition: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS","description":"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 in full color--to elucidate each concisely presented point, the revised and updated third edition continues to emphasize how design choices relate to the reasons for making a map and its intended purpose. All components of map making are covered: titles, labels, legends, visual hierarchy, font selection, how to turn phenomena into visual data, data organization, symbolization, and more. Innovative pedagogical features include a short graphic novella, good design\/poor design map examples, end-of-chapter suggestions for further reading, and an annotated map examplar that runs throughout the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e New to This Edition\u003cbr\u003e *Expanded coverage of using mobile digital devices to collect data for maps, including discussions of location services and locational privacy.\u003cbr\u003e *New and revised topics: how to do sketch maps, how map categories and symbols have changed over time, designing maps on desktop computers and mobile devices, human perception and color, and more.\u003cbr\u003e *Separate, expanded chapter on map symbol abstraction.\u003cbr\u003e *Additional case studies of compelling phenomena such as children's traffic fatalities based on race, the spread of tropical diseases, and the 2012 presidential election.\u003cbr\u003e *Many additional color illustrations.","brand":"Guilford Publications, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124963492080,"sku":"9781462527243","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781462527243_p0.jpg?v=1763677207","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781462527243","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}