{"id":4214,"date":"2026-04-06T13:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/?page_id=4214"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:53:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:53:52","slug":"cartography-books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/collections\/topic-areas\/cartography\/cartography-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartography Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Design<\/em><\/strong>
\nCartography: A Compendium of Design Thinking for Mapmakers<\/a>. Kenneth Field. Redlands, Calif.: Esri Press, 2018.<\/p>\n

Cartography: An Introduction<\/a>. Giles Darkes and Mary Spence. London: British Cartographic Society, 2017.<\/p>\n

Designing Better Maps: a Guide for GIS Users<\/a>. 3rd edition. Cynthia A. Brewer. Redlands, Calif.: Esri Press, 2024.<\/p>\n

GIS Cartography: a Guide to Effective Map Design<\/a>. 4th edition. Gretchen N. Peterson. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2025.<\/p>\n

Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS<\/a>. 4th edition. John Krygier and Denis Wood. New York: Guilford, 2025.<\/p>\n

Principles of Map Design<\/a>. Judith A. Tyner. New York: Guilford Press, 2010.
\nAlso available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Telling Stories with Maps: Lessons from a Lifetime of Creating Place-based Narratives<\/a>. Allen Carroll. Redlands, Calif.: Esri Press, 2024.<\/p>\n

Thematic Mapping: 101 Inspiring Ways to Visualise Empirical Data<\/a>. Kenneth Field. Redlands, Calif.: Esri Press, 2022.<\/p>\n

Mapping Time<\/em><\/strong>
\nMapping Time: Illustrated by Minard’s Map of Napoleon’s Russian Campaign of 1812<\/a>. Menno-Jan Kraak. Redlands, Calif.: Esri Press, 2014.<\/p>\n

Motion in Maps, Maps in Motion: Mapping Stories and Movement through Time<\/a>, Zef Segal and Bram Vannieuwenhuyze,editors. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
\nAlso available online<\/a><\/p>\n

Maps as Art<\/em><\/strong>
\nThe Art of Map Illustration: a Step-by-Step Artistic Exploration of Contemporary Cartography and Mapmaking<\/a>. James Gulliver Hancock. Lake Forest, Calif.: Walter Foster Publishing, 2018.
\nAlso available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How to Make Hand-Drawn Maps: a Creative Guide with Tips, Tricks, and Projects<\/a>. Helen Cann. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2018.<\/p>\n

Map Art Lab: 52 Exciting Art Explorations in Mapmaking, Imagination, and Travel<\/a>. Jill K. Berry. Beverly, Mass.: Quarry Books, 2014.
\nAlso available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography<\/a>. Katharine Harmon and Gayle Clemans. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.<\/p>\n

Personal Cartographies<\/em><\/strong>
\nWalking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers<\/a>. Karen O\u2019Rourke. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2013.<\/p>\n

You are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination<\/a>. Katharine Harmon. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Design Cartography: A Compendium of Design Thinking for Mapmakers. Kenneth Field. Redlands, Calif.: Esri Press, 2018. Cartography: An Introduction. Giles Darkes and Mary Spence. London: British Cartographic Society, 2017. Designing Better Maps: a Guide for GIS Users. 3rd edition. Cynthia A. Brewer. Redlands, Calif.: Esri Press, 2024. GIS Cartography: a Guide to Effective Map Design. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"parent":3422,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4214","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4214"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4281,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4214\/revisions\/4281"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}