A transition in improving maps: The ColorBrewer example

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 159-162

  Brewer, Cynthia A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING;

MAP MAKING;

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

CARTOGRAPHY; COLOR; DESIGN; MAP GRAPHICS; MAPPING METHOD; THEMATIC MAPPING;

EID: 0042703179     PISSN: 15230406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1559/152304003100011126     Document Type: Article

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2. Brewer, Cynthia A., Geoffrey W. Hatchard, and Mark A. Harrower. 2003. ColorBrewer in print: A catalog of color schemes for maps. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 30(1): 5-32 and online at .
3. Harrower, Mark A., and Cynthia A. Brewer. ColorBrewer: An online tool for selecting color schemes for maps. The Cartographic Journal, in press.
4. Nelson, Elizabeth S. 2000. The impact of bivariate symbol design on task performance in a map setting. Cartographica 37(4): 61-78.
5. Shortridge, Barbara G., and Robert B. Welch. 1982. The effect of stimulus redundancy on the discrimination of town size on maps. The American Cartographer 9(1): 69-80.