Posted in Making Maps Book News, Maps Made on August 5, 2005 | No Comments »
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, despite [...]
Posted in Maps Made on August 4, 2005 | No Comments »
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 post [...]
Posted in Deep Map Thoughts on August 3, 2005 | No Comments »
Q: Is cartography dead?
A: Denis Wood thinks so, me too (maybe - kinda depends on what you mean by “cartography”). Read his polemic Cartography is Dead (Thank God!) (download/view the PDF here originally published in Cartographic Perspectives number 45, Spring 2003). It isn’t that Denis believes mapping is dead - quite the contrary. There is [...]
Posted in Making Maps Book News on August 2, 2005 | No Comments »
Q: What tunes did you listen to while making Making Maps?
A: iTunes was essential software for the completion of Making Maps. I have always listened to music while making maps, but have never been able to listen to music while doing other work. Curious. Various and sundry tunes wafted in the background whilst I worked [...]
