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 »
Word Maps | Words on Maps | Map Typography
Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, 10 Type on Maps, tagged Cartography - type, Cartography - words, Map Lettering, Maps - words, Maps- South America on January 31, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Click map for larger version; full version (7.3 mb PDF) here The beauty of words on maps is often not evident, embedded, as they are, in an array of other symbols. A “word map” of South America (above), published by the Geographical Press in 1935, consists entirely of hand-lettered words. The map is supposed to show [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Working Maps: 17th-19th Century French Manuscript Maps
Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 09 Map Symbolization, 10 Type on Maps, 11 Color on Maps, Map History, tagged History of Cartography, Map Design, map symbols - farm fields, map symbols - French - 17th-19th century, map symbols - geology, map symbols - hunting grounds, map symbols - prehistoric sites, map symbols - property, map symbols - rivers, map symbols - terrain, map symbols - trees & forests, maps - manuscript on February 3, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Prähistorische Karte von Südwestdeutschland und der Schweiz, 1879 (Protohistoric and Prehistoric Discoveries …) Looking at working maps – manuscripts, field sketches, and provisional maps – reveals a diversity of symbolization and design which are lost in the monoculture of finished, standardized maps. HistCarto brings together more than 4000 17th-19th century French manuscript maps. All are [...]
321 Definitions of “Map”
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 10 Type on Maps, Map History, tagged Map Definitions, What is a Map?, Word Clouds on November 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »
What is a map? J.H. Andrews compiled 321 definitions of “map” for a 1996 article (“What Was a Map?” Cartographica 33:4, pp. 1-11). Edit out all the source information and other miscellaneous stuff and you have a bunch of words that can be pumped into a word cloud generator like the wonderful Wordle. The word [...]
Making Maps with a Typewriter
Posted in 04 Map-Making Tools, 09 Map Symbolization, 10 Type on Maps, Map History on September 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Map-making has often adapted technologies designed for purposes other than making maps. I recall Scitex hardware as the state-of-the-art in large format color computer mapping in the early 1980s when I was first learning cartography. Cartography applications were developed when Scitex, its origins in designing and printing textiles, noticed “the similarity between printing large fabric [...]
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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