Hi Janet,

Please see the book section on my Cartographic resources link page (url below). Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS - Krygier, Wood in particular is an excellent guide to a lot fo what you mentioned, and very easy to interpret for non-GIS users. Although it styles itself as a guide to GIS maps specifically most of what it contains covers maps and cartography in general IMO.

https://sites.google.com/stanford.edu/gis-cartography/link-list

https://mapschool.io/ is another easy to parse resource on VERY basic components to GIS maps and data types in particular. 

On 2022-02-03 16:49, Janet Reyes wrote:

Hello,

 

A faculty member in History has asked for recommendations for a book he could use for readings in an upcoming graduate seminar on “Nature, Space and Place in Historical Research.”

 

He’s looking for suggestions for “short, easily digestible readings about scale, raster versus vector, choropleth maps, census data, and metadata” – possibly a book that includes these discussions as chapters. He wants to help the History graduate students “think about maps as sources, problems in their construction, how maps lie, etc., and how to bring historic maps into a GIS.”

 

I’ve found a few contenders by searching around, but any recommendations you have on specific books would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thank you,

 

 

Janet Reyes
Geospatial Information Librarian
UCR Library | University of California, Riverside

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Riverside, CA 92517-5900

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