resources

texts

• How to Lie With Maps, Mark Monmonier.
• Chicago History of Cartography Online

• Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users, C. A. Brewer.
• Designed Maps: A Sourcebook for GIS Users, C. A. Brewer.
• Cartography: Thematic Map Design, B. D. Dent, J. S. Torguson, T. W. Hodler.
• Learning QGIS 2.0, A. Graser.
• You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination, K. Harmon.
• Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities, F. Jabobs.
• Transit Maps of the World, Mark Ovenden.

Useful QGIS Tutorials

• How to Use the Composer to make a PDF

some map-related links

• David Rumsey Map Collection

• GIS-Windham Regional Commission

• More Basemaps in QGIS: Indicatrix

• Search Tools (Vermont Center for Geographic Information)

• Imagery services (Vermont Center for Geographic Information)

• The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection

• The Nasa Projection Gallery

• Anna Goren's Plan Map of the Marlboro Trails.

• A really cool use of maps to discuss elections and history.

• The Stanford Spatial History Project Website which has a lot of different projects and visualizations, many map based.

• A super-cool and really well done interactive map of Redlining in the US that includes georeferenced old maps of the actual redistricting.