Skip to Main Content
Web Cartography
book

Web Cartography

by Ian Muehlenhaus
December 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
262 pages
8h 5m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Web Cartography
137
8
Symbolization
Introduction
Unfortunately, what might pop into many people’s minds when they hear
“Web map” is a map full of upside-down teardrops, pushpins, or thumb-
tacks (see Figure8.1). These default symbols largely rose to prominence on
the Web with the advent of Google Maps and Google Earth.
The keyword that needs to be highlighted in the previous paragraph is
default—as in basic, nonspecialized, even simplistic. There is nothing inher-
ently wrong with someone who is untrained in map design creating a Web
map of all the places he or she has been in Arkansas using default thumbtack
symbols. Not everyone has the time or inclination to learn ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Urban High-Resolution Remote Sensing

Urban High-Resolution Remote Sensing

Guoqing Zhou
Location-Aware Applications

Location-Aware Applications

Murat Aktihanoglu, Richard Ferraro
HTML5 Geolocation

HTML5 Geolocation

Anthony T. Holdener

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781439876220