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I recently finished up a first draft of a piece for a client, a map that gave me a chance to try some new things and also exercise some cartographic muscles that I haven’t for a while. So, today, I wanted to just highlight a few interesting odds and ends that came up during the process.
First off, here’s a look at the preliminary map, a 36×24-inch poster. It’s still...
To make maps, we must sin against the landscape. We distort the earth’s roundness, and we simplify complex realities down to a series of colors and symbols. Ancient trees become a scattering of green pixels on a screen; a horrific battle becomes a labeled dot; and an awe-inspiring bird migration becomes a simple arrow.
But this is necessary. Maps work because
I make most of my living doing freelance mapping and GIS (and it’s been very busy lately, hence why I’ve not written here in months). Clients come to me and ask me to deliver specific things, and I prepare whatever they need. But I also make