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Reddit mentions of Cartographer's Toolkit: Colors, Typography, Patterns
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Look at maps. Seriously, this is the best way to make your maps better. Save a folder of maps you like, different styles, layouts, colors, symbology, trail patterns, typography used, ... As you are able to appreciate a good map, you will be able to replicate these types of success in your own work.
Read cartography blogs such as Brian Greer , buy (or ask for gifts) cartography books such as Cartographer's Toolkit .
These are general tips. ArcMap is great for GIS, but map design it is a bit clunky. Specific tips include:
1) learn to use guides for aligning objects in your map
2) learn to use multiple data frames for inset maps
3) learn text formatting tags and dynamic text
4) learn all the legend options. Click through the multiple tabs and windows, see what they do.
*5) look up color palettes (Adobe Kuler) try using different fonts than Arial.
Look at a map you find does one thing really well and try to replicate that using the tools at your disposal. As you advance, learn a graphic design program such as Illustrator or Inkscape - you will export your GIS layers and stylize the map itself in these other programs. Good luck.
To be completely I honest, it is adequate work for a GIS class and I have seen worse cartography from "trained" GIS professionals. I use to work for an assessor office in a US city with nearly 250k people and the IT/GIS and planning depts gave maps of poor quality to a well known non-profit for a presentation. I am no cartography expert but it is one of the easiest things to criticize/fix for most maps. If I count my grad school job, I have been working with GIS for 6 years and I seen/made plenty of bad maps from cartographic point of view. Probably most in this subreddit. I think good cartography can make a newbie GIS professionals stand out if they are looking for work samples.
If you have the money:
Cartographer's Toolkit: Colors, Typography, Patterns
Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users
Thank you. I noticed that after I printed it, unfortunately. Also, I got the color scheme from this book my father got me called Cartographer's Toolkit. It has fonts, color schemes, and map styles. Link here if you want to take a look -
https://www.amazon.com/Cartographers-Toolkit-Colors-Typography-Patterns/dp/0615467946