Selecting the visual variables: symbolisation

Watch the YouTube video on Principles of Cartographic Symbolization. You should also refer to the presentation on Symbolization as supplementary to the above.

For more details, read the article by White, T. (2017), Symbolization and the Visual Variables as found in the Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge. (2nd Quarter 2017 Edition), John P. Wilson (ed.).DOI: 10.22224/gistbok/2017.2.3.

More details on map symbols and what they stand for can be found at Part 3: Map Literacy, Section What map symbols stand for.