Map orientation shapes perception of the world around us It’s pretty common to describe direction in relation to location on a map. Go up that way, down here, or over there. Up, down, and over ...
https://www.graphicarto.com/directional-cartography-maps-and-relative-direction/
Like many cartographers, I’ve always had a certain fascination with urban form and geographic patterns. Out of seeming chaos, patterns and systems are found, governed by common practice, unders...
https://www.graphicarto.com/urban-patterns-the-cloverleafs-of-msp/
Mapping Out the 2016 Baseball Season Visually tracking your team, and who and when they are playing, during a 180 day pennant marathon can be tricky… team schedules tend to be decentralized, ta...
https://www.graphicarto.com/the-baseball-map-whos-in-town-today/
Drawing a map of the city based on how we live in the city What makes a neighborhood? Many things may come to mind… including the people you live with, the places you frequent, and the location...
https://www.graphicarto.com/mapping-twin-cities-neighborhoods/
“It is not about how much information there is, but rather how effectively it is arranged.” -Edward Tufte It’s only appropriate to start a post on design with an Edward Tufte quote, I suppo...
https://www.graphicarto.com/nine-habits-of-effective-designers/
Geography, the science and study, is wide reaching, cross-cutting, and diverse. Spatial concepts, geographic fundamentals, analytical methods, and data maps are helpful or even critical in many d...
https://www.graphicarto.com/geography-for-the-non-geographer/
One of the most important characteristics one can possess in the current professional landscape is the ability to learn new tools quickly. This rings true across many industries, and is especiall...
https://www.graphicarto.com/the-place-of-process-tools-and-the-importance-of-procedure/
In a world of budding novice mapmakers and shares, likes, and retweets, we have never seen maps and graphics appear, circulate, and educate as much as they do right now. Maps are an engaging way ...
https://www.graphicarto.com/the-lost-art-of-critical-map-reading/
Somewhere in the past few decades, cartographers have lost the control of cartography. How could this happen? Can we get it back? This past fall, I co-taught an introductory GIS and Cartography c...
So I stumbled across an old postcard of Minneapolis, taken of the skyline probably in the mid-1960s. I was immediately struck by how close it was to a photo I took earlier this year (late March 2...