GIS Cartography: A Guide to Effective Map Design, Third Edition

Since the publication of the bestselling second edition 5 years ago, vast and new globally-relevant geographic datasets have become available to cartography practitioners, and with this has come the need for new ways to visualize them in maps as well as new challenges in ethically disseminating the visualizations. With new features and significant updates that address these changes, this edition remains faithful to the original vision that cartography instruction should be software agnostic.

Discussing map design theory and technique rather than map design tools, this book focuses on digital cartography and its best practices. This third edition has completely new sections on how to deal with maps that go viral and the ethics therein; new presentation ideas; new features such as amenities, climate data, and hazards; the new Equal Earth projection; and vector tile design considerations. All chapters are thoroughly updated with new illustrations and new sections for datasets that didn't exist when the second edition was published, as well as new techniques and trends in cartography.

New in the third edition:

• A true textbook, written with a friendly style and excellent examples explaining everything from layout design to fonts and colors, to specific design considerations for individual feature types, to static and dynamic cartography issues.
• Thoroughly updated with new features such as points of interest, climate data, hazards, and buildings; new projections such as the Equal Earth projection and the Spilhaus projection; and vector tile design considerations such as label placement techniques and tricks for making world-class basemaps.
• Includes over 70 new map examples that display the latest techniques in cartography.
• Reflects on new developments in color palettes; visualization patterns; datums; and non-static output media such as animation, interaction, and large-format cinematic techniques, that weren't available for the second edition.
• Defines and illustrates new terms that have made their way into the profession over the last few years such as story maps, flow maps, Dorling cartograms, spec sheets, bivariate choropleths, firefly cartography, Tanaka contours, and value-by-alpha.

In this third edition, author Gretchen Peterson takes a "don't let the technology get in the way" approach to the presentation, focusing on the elements of good design, what makes a good map, and how to get there, rather than specific software tools. She provides a reference that you can thumb through time and again as you create your maps. Copiously illustrated, the third edition explores novel concepts that kick-start your pursuit of map-making excellence. The book doesn't just teach you how to design and create good maps, it teaches you how to design and create superior maps.

自從5年前暢銷第二版出版以來，地理資料的數量和全球範圍內的相關性有了巨大的增長，這也帶來了在地圖中視覺化這些資料的新方法以及在道德上傳播視覺化的新挑戰。本版通過新增功能和重大更新來應對這些變化，始終忠於地圖製作教學應該是軟體無關的原始理念。

本書討論的是地圖設計理論和技巧，而不是地圖設計工具，重點放在數位地圖製作和最佳實踐上。本版全新增加了如何處理病毒式傳播的地圖和相關倫理的章節；新的呈現方式；新增功能，如設施、氣候資料和危害；全新的Equal Earth投影；以及向量瓦片設計考慮因素。所有章節都經過全面更新，新增了新的插圖和第二版出版時不存在的資料集的新章節，以及地圖製作中的新技術和趨勢。

第三版的新增內容包括：
- 一本真正的教科書，以友好的風格和優秀的例子解釋從版面設計到字體和顏色，再到個別要素類型的特定設計考慮因素，以及靜態和動態地圖製作問題的一切。
- 全面更新，新增了設施、氣候資料、危害和建築等新功能；新增了Equal Earth投影和Spilhaus投影等新投影方式；以及向量瓦片設計考慮因素，如標籤放置技巧和製作世界級底圖的訣竅。
- 包含超過70個新的地圖範例，展示地圖製作中的最新技術。
- 反映了顏色調色板、視覺化模式、基準面和非靜態輸出媒體（如動畫、互動和大尺寸電影技術）等方面的新發展，這些在第二版中尚不可用。
- 定義並說明了近年來在這個行業中出現的新術語，如故事地圖、流動地圖、多林地圖、規格表、雙變量區域圖、螢火蟲地圖、田中等高線和值-透明度。

在第三版中，作者Gretchen Peterson採取了“不要讓技術成為阻礙”的方法，專注於良好設計的要素，什麼構成了一張好地圖以及如何達到這一目標，而不是特定的軟體工具。她提供了一本可以一再翻閱的參考書，幫助您製作地圖。第三版豐富地插圖，探索了啟發您追求卓越地圖製作的新概念。這本書不僅教您如何設計和製作好的地圖，還教您如何設計和製作優秀的地圖。

Gretchen N. Peterson, GISP, is a world-renowned geospatial professional who runs the digital mapping company PetersonGIS, authors books on cartographic design, speaks and blogs about cartography.

Gretchen N. Peterson, GISP，是一位世界知名的地理空間專業人士，經營著數位地圖公司PetersonGIS，撰寫有關地圖設計的書籍，並在地圖製作方面演講和撰寫部落格。