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Welcome To Cartography
Announcing the debut of the Cartography Topic on Designorati
Announcing the debut of the Cartography Topic on Designorati
Hello all and welcome. I am pleased and proud to welcome any and all comers to what I think is a unique offering.
Designorati:Cartography aims to explore maps and mapmakers, past, present and future, with an eye toward design–the basic principles of color, hierarchy, scale, and symbolism, and how maps communicate.
Humans have always had the drive to understand and interpret the world that surrounds us. Maps abstract that in myriad interesting ways. They inform, propagandize, compel, decorate, and entertain. And, personally speaking, I find that just about everyone, even people who don’t have any specific interest in maps, become extremely interested when someone starts to talk about it.
This is sort of the happy and unexpected realization of a personal goal–a space where I can share what I know and what I can find for and about maps.
Welcome. This is Designorati:Cartography.
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What kind of tools are used for cartography?
It kind of depends on what sort of map you’re trying to produce.
In the past, maps were drawn by hand from information supplied by field surveys.
Today, maps are produced by computers and use information than can come from just about anywhere - human notes, satellite photos, computer readins - just about anything.
Cartography is more these days about the making of all sorts of maps in all sorts of ways. The tools one can use are as numerous as the types of maps produced.
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