Map Making Resources

Find map-making, GIS, and spatial analysis resources.

Cartography

• ArcGIS Blogexternal icon: The latest news about ESRI products
• Cartographic Guidelines for Public Health pdf icon[PDF – 3.7 M]: Best practices for producing high-quality, consistent map products for the public health community.
• Color Brewerexternal icon: Custom colorways, including color-blind–friendly, print-friendly, quantitative, and qualitative color schemes
• Coordinate Systems Overviewexternal icon
• Map Projection Overviewexternal icon
• USGS Map Scale Tutorial pdf icon[PDF-1.7M]external icon

GIS

• GIS in Public Health and Planningexternal icon: A compilation of GIS tutorials, data sources, and case studies
• National Cancer Instituteexternal icon: GIS data, tools, and research
• URISA’s GIS in Public Health Planning courseexternal icon

Spatial Analysis

• Center for Spatially Integrated Social Scienceexternal icon
• Error, Accuracy, and Precisionexternal icon: An article detailing the differences between and importance of accuracy, error, and precision.