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Reading
General Texts
Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS - Krygier, Wood (@Stanford)
Cartography: An Introduction, 2nd - BCS (@Stanford)
Cartography Guide - Axis Maps
Advanced Texts
Cartography - Ken Fields (@Stanford)
Cartographic Relief Presentation - Eduard Imhof
Envisioning Information - Edward Tufte
Essays & Articles
Map Making Advice for Students - Tom Patterson
Design is human - Daniel Huffman
Cartographic Design and Aesthetics "FAQ" - Cartographic Perspectives
Banning exploration in my infovis class - Eytan Adar
How to Read a Map - Outside Magazine
Science–graphic art partnerships - Nature.com
Color
Subtleties of Color - Robert Simmon
How the rainbow color map misleads - Robert Kosara
Diverging Color Maps for Scientific Visualization - Kenneth Moreland
No More Rainbows! - Matt Hall
End The Rainbow! Oh Wait - Rafael H. M. Pereira
The misuse of colour in science communication - Nature
Data-driven color schemes - Carto
Color Brewer 2 - map color picker application
Adobe Color - Create and explore color collections
Canva color palette generator
Leonardo Color Design Tools
Rainbows are for unicorns!
Labeling
Positioning Names on Maps - Eduard Imhof
Tips for better typography - Map Hugger
Typography - Pierrick Calvez
Type Brewer (under construction)
Cartographic Fonts for Labelling Maps - Ortelius
Symbology & Classification
Telling the Truth (classifying thematic map data) - John Nelson
Elegant Figures (scaling continuous map data) - Robert Simmon
How histograms work - Nathan Yau
Visual Variables - Axis Maps
Choropleth Maps - Lisa Charlotte Muth
Classic Map Color Design - RJ Andrews
Why it's better not to add scalebars to world maps - Nicolas Lambert
Map Projections
Projections & Coordinate Systems -Mike Foster
OSU Adaptive Composite Map Projections
The Impossible Map (YouTube Video)
I hate Coordinate Systems! (problem solving guide)
Coordinate Reference Systems in R
Techniques and Tutorials
15 tips for cartographers in ArcGIS Pro - Heather Smith
Bivariate Choropleth Maps: A How To Guide - Josh Stevens
Making Value by Alpha Maps - Andy Woodruff
Reverse masking - Migration example
Hexagon Mapping - Esri
Story Map Dev for Cascade templates - John Nelson
Paper maps to slippy maps - Adam Wilbert
Leaflet WebMap Tutorial - MapTimeTO
Teaching with maps (for k-12 educators)
Modify ArcGIS Vertex Limit (eliminate split polygons for AI exports)
Tools for Teachers Norman B. Leventhal Map Center
GIS in R - Nick Eubank
Clear lid 3d mapping exercise (video) - Joseph Kerski
Creating Shaded Relief in Blender - Daniel Huffman
"Mist-ifying" Maps in Blender - Peter Atwood
Interactive Images in StoryMaps
Enhancing Lowland Terrain in Shaded Relief
Temporal Data Animations in QGIS
Web Mapping UW Cart Lab
Building a Story - lessons learned from fictional map making
Overview Globe in ArcGIS Pro - John Nelson
3D Printing Digital Elevation Models - OpenTopography
Apps & Tools
ai2html - convert AI docs to html and CSS
SVG Crowbar Export web SVG to downloadable SVG
Tufte CSS for web deign
Create Text Centerlines from polygons script
Scapetoad cartogram app
Contour Generator - Axis Maps
Dynamic Elevation Profile Lines in QGIS
StoryMapJS - Knight Labs
TimelineJS - interactive timeline generator
Flowmap.blue - geographic flow maps from Google sheets
Google Timelapse - create animated timelapses of Google historical imagery
Blend Mode Helper (Esri)
Blogs & Portfolios
Adventures in Mapping - John Nelson
Something About Maps - Daniel Huffman
Mapbliss - David Medeiros
Andy Skinner - Esri
Fun & Miscellanea
The Secret Life of a Highway Interchange
Visualizing the Geography of FM Radio
Zombie Apocalypse Survival Map
Earth Global weather conditions visualizer
Elastic Terrain - OSU Cartography and Geo-visualization Group
Travel times between counties 1880 - 1900
Semantic Maps (aka the Brain Map)
A Year in the Life of Earth's CO2
Earthquakes By Depth virtual globe
Medieval Fantasy City Generator
Figuregrounder - figure-ground map poster generator
#MappingItAll - micro mapping tutorials by Wes Jones
#practicarto - practical cartography tips and tricks
Mappa Mundi - the world's worst map?
