Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 05 Geographic Framework, Maps Made, unMaking Maps on September 19, 2007 | 13 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 world [...]
Posted in 04 Map-Making Tools, 09 Map Symbolization, 10 Type on Maps, Map History on September 12, 2007 | No 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 surfaces [...]
Posted in 09 Map Symbolization on September 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Cartographers have long been concerned with how map-readers perceive map symbols. How small can a map symbol be and still be noticed? What size do symbols have to be for a viewer to differentiate and clearly distinguish different shapes or forms? Such questions can be answered by using psychological methods of evaluation, [...]
