Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS
"This detailed guide to elementary mapping in the age of digital information, Internet resources, and geographic information systems is simple, clear, and comprehensive.  The book's lucid style and dramatic, apposite, and often funny illustrations make it a novel and effective resource in a culture where the map is a ubiquitous presence.  More than an instruction manual on making maps, it is also a guide to their critical reading and interpretation.  Making Maps will be invaluable for users as well as creators of maps at the university level and beyond."--Denis Cosgrove, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles"Although it looks deceptively simple--like the textbook equivalent of a graphic novel--Making Mapscondenses all the essential principles of map making and the geographic concepts behind them into a remarkably accessible, witty, engaging book.  The text is crystal clear and irreverent, the hundreds of illustrations inspiring and memorable.  Only Krygier and Wood, two of the most creative geographers on the planet, could come up with this breakthrough visualization of the art and science of making good maps.  Novice and even experienced cartographers will find it an indispensable guide."--Anne Knowles, Department of Geography, Middlebury College"A unique and timely book that provides much-needed guidance to GIS users making thematic maps.  One strength of the book is that principles of map design are often best shown by visual example, and another is that the examples are not tied to any one GIS software package. Cartographically sound and very approachable, this book will help readers ensure that the maps they make are clear, legible and easy to understand."--Barbara P. Buttenfield, Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder