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Map Symbols: Permanent Snow & Ice

This manual establishes the design, weights, and gauges of symbols, and the type styles and sizes to be used in compiling and drafting standard topographic maps prepared by the Army Map Service for p… more →

Making Maps: DIY Cartography

Making Advocacy & Humanitarian Maps [updated] — 6 comments

John Krygier wrote 1 month ago: When Bill Bunge mapped out the locations of car/pedestrian collisions in Detroit (Detroit Geograph … more →

Tags: 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 04 Map-Making Tools, Advocacy Maps, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, Activism maps, Counter Cartography, Counter Mapping

Map Symbols: Permanent Snow & Ice

John Krygier wrote 4 months ago: This manual establishes the design, weights, and gauges of symbols, and the type styles and sizes t … more →

Tags: 09 Map Symbolization, 12 Finishing Your Map, Map History, Map Design, map symbols, Snow & Ice - Map Symbols

New Book: The Natures of Maps by Wood & Fels — 3 comments

John Krygier wrote 6 months ago: Denis Wood & John Fels’ new book The Natures of Maps is available now from the University … more →

Tags: 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, Advocacy Maps, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, Map History, Cartographic Theory, Cartography & Nature

Map Symbols: Landforms & Terrain — 4 comments

John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: Erwin Raisz is among the most creative cartographers of the 20th century, known in particular for … more →

Tags: 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, cartography, landform maps, Map Design, map symbols, Maps, scenery on maps

Map Symbols: Wells and Springs

John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: Wells Springs Successful, Unsuccessful Nonmineral, Mineral Nonmineral, Mineral, Artesian, Gravity, … more →

Tags: 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, Cartographic symbols, Map Design, map symbols, Springs, Symbols, wells

1911 Cartogram: "Apportionment Map" — 9 comments

John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: A cartogram varies the size of geographic areas based on the data values associated with each are … more →

Tags: 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, map symbols, Map Design, cartograms, statistical maps, thematic maps

Map Symbols: Showing Multivariate Data with Texture — 2 comments

John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: Map of New York City, Showing the Distribution of the Principal Nationalities by Sanitary Districts … more →

Tags: 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, cartography, Edward Tufte, ethnicity maps, Jacques Bertin, Map Design, map symbols

More Principles of Map Design — 5 comments

John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: Making maps is rife with rules. But following rules does not necessarily produce a great (or even g … more →

Tags: 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 06 Map Layout, 07 Hierarchies, 08 Generalization & Classification, 09 Map Symbolization, Deep Map Thoughts, cartography, Design, Design Principles


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