Strangely, books are still being rolled out on cartography, but no-one really had the nerve to do a proper job on the web.

So, I have just written a chapter for a new textbook on cartography and I know Ken Field and Damien Saunders are working on a textbook as well.

Ken Field noted on  http://mapdesign.icaci.org/ that: “The last year or so have seen the publication of a number of excellent books that perform a similar task. These include Jerry Brotton’s ‘Great Maps‘, Daniel Huffman and Sam Mathews’ ‘Atlas of Design Vol 2‘, Rose Mitchell and Andrew Janes’ ‘Maps: Their untold stories‘ and The Times History of the World in Maps.” These are showcase good examples of map design.

But the question was about web-based sources.

John Krygier had a good go at http://makingmaps.net/2008/02/05/more-principles-of-map-design/
http://www.icsm.gov.au/mapping/ tries quite hard
ESRI have put some stuff on line (eg http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2011/10/28/design-principles-for-cartography/)
But there is definitely a niche there for someone or organisation to do a really good website.

Cheers
Steve
SoC Chair

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From: Brendan Whyte [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 12:07 AM
To: AMC; mapsL; Carto-soc
Subject: [carto-soc] websites on basic cartographic design?

A journal editor has approached me about websites explaining basic cartographic design principles, to which he can direct authors so that they submit with their papers decent quality maps, suitable for b/w journal reproduction.

I know of the textbooks such as:

Slocum, McMaster, Kessler, & Howard. 2009.
Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization,
3rd Ed., Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall,

Dent, Torguson, & Hodler. 2009.
Cartography: Thematic Map Design,
6th Ed., Boston, MA: WCB-McGraw Hill,

Robinson, Morrison, Muehrcke,Kimerling &Guptill. 1995.
Elements of Cartography,
5th Ed., NY, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,

Are there any websites that give similar information on basic principles (sensible barscales, linework, layout, resolution etc)?The main problem he faces seems to be people using GIS to get an automatic map output for locator or thematic maps, that is too low res, overly detailed, or otherwise unsuitable for b/w reproduction in a journal, in a nutshell, simply badly designed.

Thanks

Brendan


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