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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 , , , , , , 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 [...]

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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, [...]

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

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Map Color Resources

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, 11 Color on Maps on July 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Selecting effective colors for your maps is a challenge. In Making Maps I review basic color issues, including how we see and create colors, as well as the complexity of color interactions and some basic color guidelines. A myriad of color resources for mapping exist. A few of the more useful are below. ColorBrewer: Cindy [...]

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