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 King
County GIS Cartographic Standards |
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NOTICE: On March 12, 2007, the King County Council voted approval of the new King County logo in the image of the county’s namesake, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The King County GIS Cartographic Standards Workgroup subsequently revised CS 11, the cartographic standard that covers logo use. The King County GIS Technical Committee approved that change on March 27, 2007. |
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 Main
Document (174kb PDF)
To fully
understand and properly apply the Cartographic
Standards, refer to Section 2, "Purpose,"
and Section 3, "The Standards Matrix" which
describes the structure and content of the
matrix—Appendix A. (Section 1 is the
introduction; Section 4 concerns various
custom mapping applications to which the
standards apply.)
Appendix
A: Standards Matrix (155kb PDF)
Appendix
A contains the full complement of King County
GIS Cartographic Standards.
–Disclaimer
Text (cartostd_disclaimer.txt,
from Standard CS 10, Appendix page 7)
Appendix
B: Sample Map Appendix
B consists of a sample map rendered
as both a JPEG image and a PDF file.
–JPEG (408kb)
–PDF (323kb) |
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Submit
Feedback
If you
have comments, questions, or ideas about
the standards, or would like to make suggestions
please e-mail
the KCGIS Cartographic
Standards Workgroup.
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Document
History
The
King County GIS Technical Committee submitted
the standards to the GIS Oversight Committee
for approval on March 5, 2002. The document
was approved on April 29, 2002.
Cover
letter to the Oversight Committee (242kb
PDF)
Document
revisions have occurred on June 26, 2006,
and March 27, 2007.
(The
complete document history can be found
in the document on Page i.) |
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Introduction [from
the document]
The GIS Technical Committee, as part of the King County GIS consolidation initiative, established the Cartographic Standards Workgroup. It is made up of cartographers and GIS analysts from throughout the County. The mission of the workgroup is to propose requirements, guidelines and best practices for King County GIS maps that will assist staff using GIS software to produce high-quality, consistent map products for the County. What follows is a set of requirements and guidelines that evolved through lengthy discussions over the course of many meetings and continues to be improved upon through input from users throughout the County. |
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