Bibliography for Map Design

 (a highly selective and incomplete collection of references)

Agoston, G. A. (1987). Color Theory and Its Application in Art and Design. New York, NY, Springer-Verlag.

American Cartographic Association (1991). Matching the Map Projection to the Need. Bethesda, MD, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping.

Berryman, G. (1979). Notes on Graphic Design and Visual Communication. Los Altos, CA, Wm. Kaufman, Inc.

Board, C. (1984). Higher-order map-using tasks: geographical lessons in danger of being forgotten. Cartographica (1): 85-97.

Brady, M. (1983). Criteria for representation of shape. Human and Machine Vision. J. Beck, B. Hope and A. Rosenfeld. NY, Academic Press: 39-83.

Brewer, C. A. (1994). Color use guidelines for mapping and visualization. Visualization in Modern Cartography. A. M. MacEachren and D. R. F. Taylor. New York, NY, Pergamon Press.

Brewer, C. A. (1998). Beyond graduated circles: varied point symbols for representating quantitative data on maps. Cartographic Perspectives: 6-25.

Bugayevskiy, L. M. and J. P. Snyder (1995). Map Projections, A Reference Manual. London, Taylor & Francis.

Comentz, Joshua (2004). Visualizing metadata: design principles for thematic maps. Cartographic Perspectives 49:10-21.

Davis, L. S. (1980). Representation and recognition of cartographic data. Map Data Processing. H. a. P. Freeman, G.G. NY, Academic Press: 169-189.

DeLucia, A. A. and D. W. Hiller (1982). Natural legend design for thematic maps. The Cartographic Journal (1): 46-52.

DiBiase, D., A. M. MacEachren, et al. (1992). Animation and the role of map design in scientific visualization. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems (4): 201-214, 265-266.

DiBiase, D., A. M. MacEachren, et al. (1992). Animation and the role of map design in scientific visualization. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems 19(4): 201-214.

Gilman, C. R. (1982). Map commentary. The American Cartographer 9(2): 173-177.

Gilmartin, P. P. (1981). The interface of cognitive and psychophysical research in cartography. Cartographica 18(3): 9-20.

Guptill, S. C. and J. L. Morrison (1995). Elements of Spatial Data Quality. London, Elsevier.

Harley, J. B. (1991). Can there be a cartographic ethics. Cartographic Perspectives 10: 9-16.

Head, C. G. (1984). The map as natural language: a paradigm for understanding. Cartographica 21(1): 1-32.

Imhof, E. (1975). Positioning names on maps. The American Cartographer 2(2): 128-144.

Imhof, E. (1982). Cartographic Relief Presentation. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter.

Krygier, John and Dennis Wood (2005). Making Maps, A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS. NY, Guilford.

MacEachren, A. M. (1994). Some Truth with Maps: A Primer on Symbolization and Design. Washington, DC, Association of American Geographers.

MacEachren, A. M. (1995). How Maps Work: Representation, Visualization, and Design. NY, Guilford.

Monmonier, M. S. (1989). Maps with the News. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Monmonier, M. S. (1991). How to Lie with Maps. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Monmonier, M. S. (1991). Ethics and map design: six strategies for confronting the traditional one-map solution. Cartographic Perspectives 10: 3-8.

Monmonier, M. S. (1992). Authoring graphic scripts: experiences and principles. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems 19(4): 247-260.

Montello, Daniel R. and M. Violet Gray (2005). Miscommunicating with isoline preference maps: design principles for thematic maps. Cartographic Perspectives 50:24-33.

Morrison, J. L. (1995). A personalized national atlas of the United States. Cartographic Perspectives 20: 40-44.

Olson, J. M. (1972). The effects of class interval systems on choropleth map correlation. The Canadian Cartographer 9(44-49): 122-131.

Olson, J. M. (1976). A coordinated approach to map communication improvement. The American Cartographer 3(2): 151-159.

Pannakoek, A. J. (1962). Generalization of coastlines and contours. International Yearbook of Cartography (2): 55-74.

Patterson, T. (1997). A desktop approach to shaded relief production. Cartographic Perspectives 28: 39-40.

Patterson, Tom and Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso (2004). Hal Shelton revisited: designing and producing natural-color maps with satellite land cover data. Cartographic Perspectives 47:28-55.

Peterson, M. (1995). Interactive and Animated Cartography. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall.

Peterson, M. P. (1997). Cartography and the internet: introduction and research agenda. Cartographic Perspectives 26: 3-12.

Peterson, M. P. (1998). That interactive thing you do. Cartographic Perspectives 29: 3-4.

Shortridge, B. G. and R.B. Welch. The effect of stimulus redundancy on the discrimination of town size on maps. The American Cartographer 9(1): 69-80.

Snyder, J. P. and P. M. Voxland (1989). An Album of Map Projections. Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office.

Swanson, J. M. (1997). Mouseover mapping. Cartographic Perspectives 26: 46-47.

Synder, J. P. (1987). Labeling projections on published maps. The American Cartographer 14(1): 21-27.

Travis, D. (1991). Effective Color Displays: Theory and Practice, Academic Press.

Tufte, E. (1983). Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Cheshire, CT, The Graphic Press.

Tufte, E. (1990). Envisioning Information. Cheshire, CT, Graphics Press.

Tufte, E. R. (1997). Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Cheshire, CT, Graphics Press.

Waldorf, S. P. (1995). Commecial cartography: custom design and production. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems Special Issue: The Impact of Techological Transition on the Practice of Cartography: 168-174.

Wel, F. J. M. V. d., R. M. Hootsmans, et al. (1994). Visualization of data quality. Visualization in Modern Cartography. A. M. MacEachren and D. R. F. Taylor. Oxford, Pergamon Press.

Wood, D. (1993). The power of maps. Scientific American (May): 88-93.

Wood, M. (1993). The traditional map as a visualization technique. Visualization in Geographical Information Systems . H. M. a. D. J. U. Hearnshaw. Chichester, John Wily: 9-17.

 
 

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