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Thanks to Mike Carson and SoCalGIS.org for passing this along – one of the better cartography notes that I have seen about balancing features vs. labels. I highly recommend reading this if you make maps, or even if you use Google Maps! http://www.justinobeirne.com/essay/what-happened-to-google-maps I was pointed to a nice blog post about some tips for making beautiful maps, and wanted to share the link with everyone. I like how it brings the design aspect of cartography and graphics into the picture. Especially with our map gallery at ESRI coming up, I thought this was good […] If you might recall, I posted a “must read” article about a great cartographic map. Well – there is a nice back-story now (thanks Kayla Folkins from Pasadena for passing this along) about how all of the posting saved this person’s business! http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/165200/slate-article-saves-cartographers-business/ Still lots of interest in maps, I guess! Before For our County cartographers who want to get technical – this article at the ESRI Support Blog immediately caught my attention in terms of better visualization of our data. It has very detailed instructions which is always good:
Take a look and have fun!
ESRI Map Canvas James Fee’s blog pointed me to this new release about “canvas” basemaps, which are designed specifically to improve the visualization of data on top of maps since they are very subtle. I think our maps may end up going this way as well – the […] The City of Calabasas just completed an annexation into the Unincorporated County. The eGIS team has just completed updating the map caches to reflect this change. At the same time this gave me the opportunity to make a number of other changes that reflect improved cartography. These changes affect two map caches: The LACounty_StreetMap Cache […] Hello, Nick Franchino, via John Calas, sent me an excellent link! For you mapmakers out there, the link below is an excellent discussion of how Google is making its maps more readable – it is an excellent set of information! http://www.41latitude.com/post/2072504768/google-maps-label-readability |
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