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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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2nd Edition | Making Maps | Early 2011

Posted in Making Maps Book News, Map Books, Maps Made, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on December 15, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Cover, Making Maps, 2nd edition (Amazon | Guilford) Krygier and Wood’s book should be used by anyone interested in the way the world looks, the way the world works, or the way the world should be. It remains the most accessible yet comprehensive guide of its kind. The second edition meets the needs and expectations of [...]

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Out Now | Denis Wood | Everything Sings

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Map Books, Maps Made, tagged , , , , , , , on October 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Denis Wood’s Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas Now shipping from Siglio Press Use discount code PUMPKIN for 20% off until November 12, 2010 Three maps from Everything Sings are below Sidewalk Graffiti | Wind Chimes | Radio Waves ••••• Sidewalk Graffiti (detail) Scratched, scrawled, or stamped into drying concrete—mostly from the 60s into the [...]

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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 , , , , , , on June 22, 2009 | 10 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 [...]

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Denis Wood: A Narrative Atlas of Boylan Heights

Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Maps Made, tagged , , , on January 10, 2008 | 20 Comments »

Denis Wood, co-author of Making Maps, has been working on an atlas of the Boylan Heights neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina since the mid 1970s. The atlas, which has never been published in its entirety, is called Dancing and Singing: A Narrative Atlas of Boylan Heights. Inspired by Bill Bunge’s radical cartography in the 1960s [...]

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Making Flat Earth Globes

Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 05 Geographic Framework, Maps Made, unMaking Maps on September 19, 2007 | 22 Comments »

What if the world was spherical, but it didn’t matter? Most of you have been unable to avoid the flat-earth kerfuffle on the day-time talk show The View. On a recent episode one of the hosts, Sherri Shepherd, said she doesn’t believe the theory of evolution. Whoopi Goldberg, also a host, asked Shepherd “Is the [...]

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Making the Making Maps Maps

Posted in Making Maps Book News, Maps Made on August 5, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

Q: How were all the example maps in Making Maps created? A: The primary software I used to create Making Maps was Freehand on a Mac. I learned Illustrator and Freehand in versions 1.0 back in the day while working at the Cartographic Lab at UW Madison. I have always liked Freehand better than Illustrator, [...]

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Making Real Maps

Posted in Maps Made on August 4, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

Q: Did you ever make real maps? A: Denis makes maps, and had some – from his work in progress on the Boylan Heights neighborhood in Raleigh NC – featured on NPR’s This American Life. A few of his maps are linked there but they ain’t great scans. I will get some better ones and [...]

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