To understand map design, and how maps work, it is useful to see how map design concepts play out on a real map. One of the significant updates to the 2nd edition of Making Maps was the inclusion of a map of the 1986 trans-global flight of the experimental aircraft called Voyager. This map, originally [...]
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Map Design Annotated: 13 Voyager Maps from Making Maps 2nd Edition
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 06 Map Layout, 07 Hierarchies, 08 Generalization & Classification, 09 Map Symbolization, 10 Type on Maps, Making Maps Book News, Maps Made, tagged Annotated Maps, Map Design, Maps - Annotated, Maps - Design on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
More Old School Cartograms, 1921-1938
Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 06 Map Layout, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged cartograms, Cartograms - history, Distorted Maps on November 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cartogram, 1930: “A Distorted Map of the United States Showing Population of Each State and of Cities of 50,000 or More in 1930″ (Printers’ Ink Publishing Co., Inc., Chart by Walter P. Burns and Associates, Inc., New York City) A cartogram scales geographic areas to some value other than geographic area. In two previous blog [...]
1910 | Topographic Maps | Map Symbols | Egypt
Posted in 06 Map Layout, 07 Hierarchies, 09 Map Symbolization, 10 Type on Maps, 11 Color on Maps, Cartominutiae, Map Music, tagged Desert Maps, Egypt - maps, Empty maps, History of Cartography, Map Symbols - history, Maps - History, The Survey of Egypt on November 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Survey of Egypt, 1910, 1:1,000,000, Sheet 5 (detail 1, close-up) ••• Found while cleaning out an old map cabinet: oceans of just about nothing, punctuated by signs of a minimal landscape. Soiled, creased, tears, dusty. Thumb-print and fading pencil marks, from someone who stared at this map a long time ago. Details from a [...]
New Atlas | Denis Wood | Everything Sings
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 04 Map-Making Tools, 06 Map Layout, 07 Hierarchies, 09 Map Symbolization, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, tagged Art and maps, Atlas, Community Mapping, Counter Mapping, Critical Cartography, Denis Wood, Participatory Mapping, psychogeography on September 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
••••• That a cartographer could set out on a mission that’s so emotional, so personal, so idiosyncratic, was news to me. —Ira Glass, host of This American Life ••••• Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas by Denis Wood with an introduction by Ira Glass. Pub date: Nov. 12. $28 . Paper . [...]
Making Psychogeography Maps
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 06 Map Layout, 09 Map Symbolization, Deep Map Thoughts, Maps Made, unMaking Maps, tagged Maps - Grades 6-8, Maps - Weird, psychogeography, Psychogeography - Grades 6-8, Psychogeography - Lesson Plans, Psychogeography Maps, Sensory Mapping on June 22, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Guide Psychogéographique de OWU (2009, med res jpg) ••••• During the week of June 15-19 (2009) five intrepid Ohio students and myself engaged in improvisational psychogeography, culminating in the map opening this post. A printable 11″ x 17″ (300dpi 1.4mb) PDF of the map is here. ••• Map detail: The path taken through campus followed [...]
Mapping with Isotype
Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 06 Map Layout, 09 Map Symbolization, 10 Type on Maps, 11 Color on Maps, Map Books, Map History on February 17, 2009 | 15 Comments »
I was moving some piles of junk in a storage room and came across a 1934 U.S. Public Works Administration book on Mississippi Valley public works projects (Report of the Mississippi Valley Committee of the Public Works Administration, October 1, 1934). The book is full of maps and other information graphics influenced by Otto Neurath, [...]
More Principles of Map Design
Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 06 Map Layout, 07 Hierarchies, 08 Generalization & Classification, 09 Map Symbolization, Deep Map Thoughts, tagged Cartographic Design, Cartography, Design, Design Principles, Hate Group Maps, Map Design, maps, Run Over Children Maps, Terror Maps on February 5, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Making maps is rife with rules. But following rules does not necessarily produce a great (or even good) map. It may be the implementation of broader design principles that leads to a successful map. Principles are an intellectual generalization of a broad field of knowledge: a kind of map, in the broadest sense of the [...]
How Useful is Tufte for Making Maps?
Posted in 06 Map Layout, 07 Hierarchies, 08 Generalization & Classification, 09 Map Symbolization, 10 Type on Maps, 12 Finishing Your Map, Map Books on August 16, 2007 | 16 Comments »
Edward Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1998, 2nd edition 2001) is a classic book, arguably his best, and certainly a key text in the field of information graphics (which encompasses cartography). I know some cartography courses use the book as a text. I recall being inspired by the book as a neophyte cartographer [...]
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