GIS cartography. A guide to effective map design / ГИС-картография. Руководство по эффективному картографическому дизайну

What is cartography today? When I look back on the first and second editions of this book, it’s almost like seeing cartography as it progressed since 2009 and it now looks almost nothing like it did then. The expansion of what’s possible has been incredible. Massive technological change, accompanied by free, open, highly detailed, and reliable datasets, along with a surge of interest in the field from all corners, combined to make what was once impossible cartographically, possible.
So yes, things have certainly become more complicated. For one thing, what is a book author to do in terms of distinguishing between digital and static maps? Between basemap design and thematic map design? Between zoom levels and scales? You’ll see all of these things mixed in and around this book because I believe that good design is a concept that stays relatively constant among all these things. However, there are definitely some differences, and where those come into play, this book will point them out. <...>