Making Maps

My review

GIS, cartography and geography teachers: show this book to your students! They will appreciate! Highly graphic and didactic, it is an excellent start for people learning the map design basics.

Well, not only for starters. GIS experts can also learn since the design aspects of the map are often forgotten or not considered important (how many of them have read Tufte?).

I liked very much the bibliography at the end of each chapter which inspires you to read more about each subject.

The illustrations and maps are most of them in black and white. That surprised me and somehow annoyed me. Until I read the last page: "…we have limited the use of color to keep down its cost.