If you are a GIS professional who wants to learn more about map design, there are a number of areas that you can focus on in your quest to communicate through functional and elegant mapping. GIS Cartography: A Guide to Effective Map Design focuses on the major areas of color, typography, layout and creativity. It also provides an introduction to cartographic standards for 18 commonly used data-types such as roads, hydrography, elevation, and so on.
Within those major topic areas are a great number of sub-topics that can be explored individually. In this slide I attempted to record a few of those topics, though I am sure to be missing some. The intent of the slide was originally to simply joke about the sheer number of potential things that a nascent cartographer should learn, which is why it is laid out in a bit of a jumble. But it’s also a good visual for choosing what your next cartographic learning adventure will be.
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