Making Maps A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS

Prized for its creative design, original art, and playful, accessible writing, Making Maps is now in a thoroughly updated fourth edition. The text is restructured to emphasize the importance of the map making process. All components of map making are covered and are brought to life in the expanded graphic novella threaded through the text. Updates include new coverage of data aggregation, artificial intelligence, feminist and Indigenous perspectives, map making workflow, and more. Design choices are emphasized and linked to the reasons for making a map. Featuring more than 80 color illustrations and a unique layout, the book includes an annotated map exemplar used throughout the text, extensive map examples, and a companion website.

New to This Edition
*New or expanded topics: graduated symbol maps, multivariate choropleth maps, visual storytelling, maps and gerrymandering, artificial intelligence, workflow, and more.
*Integration of practical ideas from Indigenous and feminist perspectives.
*Coverage of color and type is shifted earlier in the book, and the chapters on map symbolization and abstraction now conclude the book, with many compelling new maps.

John Krygier, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Environment and Sustainability at Ohio Wesleyan University, with teaching and research specializations in cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), and environmental and human geography. He has made lots of maps and published on map design, educational technology, cultural geography, multimedia in cartography, planning, the history of cartography, and participatory GIS. 

Denis Wood, PhD, is an independent scholar living in Raleigh, North Carolina. He curated the award-winning Power of Maps exhibition for the Smithsonian and writes widely about maps. He is a former professor of design at North Carolina State University.  

1. How to Make a Map
2. What’s Your Map For?
3. Mappable Data
4. Map Making Tools
5. Geographic Framework
6. The Big Picture of Map Design
7. The Inner Workings of Map Design
8. Color on Maps
9. Words on Maps
10. Map Generalization and Classification
11. Map Symbolization
12. Map Symbol Abstraction
A Note to the Users of Making Maps
Acknowledgments / About the Authors
Index