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Design Better Maps with CartoDB

Emilio García & Mamata Akella

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Emilio García

@piensaenpixel

team.cartodb.com/u/piensaenpixel

Mamata Akella

@mamataakella

team.cartodb.com/u/mamatakella

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Today is the first in a series of design related webinars about thematic mapping using CartoDB

https://cartodb.com/webinars

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Thematic Maps

Highlight a specific topic or theme of information

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Thematic Maps

Symbology is based on the type of data and its geometry.

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(Some) Design Principles

For your thematic maps.

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Figure-Ground

Promote figure-ground between the

contextual background and overlaid

theme.

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Visual Hierarchy

Separate map layers into planes of

information based on their importance.

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Legibility

Make sure all map symbols, labels and

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Go Beyond Defaults!

Even just a little.

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Get creative!

Always have fun making maps.

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Let’s get mapping!

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Make a custom basemap

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And then an airport traffic map!

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Don’t worry about writing it all down.

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We have it all in a Gist

http://bit.ly/1qiwK98

Today’s slides

http://bit.ly/1UsObk6

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Documentation

http://docs.cartodb.com/

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Blog Posts

http://blog.cartodb.com/

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Map Academy

http://academy.cartodb.com/

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Our next webinar and more!