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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 , , , on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

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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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 , , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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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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These Maps Tell Lies!

Posted in 05 Geographic Framework, 08 Generalization & Classification, Map History on July 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I was catching up on back issues of the magazine The Independent (the May 22, 1920 issue) and came across this historical tidbit entitled “These Maps Tell Lies.” (link to larger PDF) “An absolutely accurate and truthful map can be used in skillful hands to mislead the unwary. Only the crudest propagandists will distort his [...]

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Map Police Review: the MLA Language Map of the US

Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 04 Map-Making Tools, 08 Generalization & Classification, 12 Finishing Your Map, Map Police on July 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »

The proliferation of mapping sites on the web provides ample fodder for critique by the map police (cartographic insiders). I usually feel a bit bad whining about the cartographic limitations of such sites. Cartographers have a history of obsessing with rules and such obsession has, arguably, limited creativity and undermined innovations. Bad cop. However, not [...]

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