Cartography

Draft Equal Earth Physical Map Open for Public Comment

January 17, 2019By Caitlin DempseyMaps and Cartography

Tom Patterson, one of the developers of the recently released Equal Earth map projection, is asking for feedback from the public on his draft physical wall map based on the Equal Earth projection.

GIS Conferences and Events

January 16, 2019By Caitlin DempseyGIS Industry

Upcoming GIS, remote sensing, and geography events, conferences, and webinars.

Place Your Orders for Atlas of Design, Volumes 1 – 4

August 28, 2018By Caitlin DempseyMaps and Cartography

NACIS is taking pre-orders for the Atlas of Design, Volume 4 as well as orders for the first three volumes.

The “Larousse Gastronomique” of Cartography

June 27, 2018By Caitlin DempseyMaps and Cartography

A new 576-page volume about the science and art of cartography has been published.

After the Map GIS Data Available for Downloading

July 6, 2016By Caitlin DempseyMaps and Cartography

A bonus to the book, After the Map, is the companion site, www.afterthemap.info which offers access to all of the imagery, spreadsheets, and GIS data used in the book.

New Edition of Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users

January 7, 2016By Caitlin DempseyMaps and Cartography

The second edition of Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users is now available from Esri Press.

1Spatial - OSM Data Styled for 1:50 Display

Neocartography Can Be Beautiful, Cartography Can Be Fast

July 7, 2015By 1SpatialGIS Learning

Nicolas Regnauld, Product Manager at 1Spatial discuss the debate about neocartography versus traditional cartography and the evolution towards creating more intelligent automation tools for creating maps.

StateFace, open source font collection of the U.S. States.

StateFace

October 20, 2014By Caitlin DempseyMaps and Cartography

Here’s a font collection cartographers and those in GIS might want to download for future use. StateFace is a sets of icons for the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and one showing the continental United States. The shapes have been simplified to make them easily usable for instances where […]

Understanding GIS: An ArcGIS Project Workbook - ISBN: 978-1-58948-242-5, 378 pages, US$79.95

Survey: GIS Books

April 23, 2014By Caitlin DempseyGIS Learning

Looking to build your geospatial reference library with GIS books? Listed here are essential books about geographic information systems and cartography.

"Map of the Universe" shown on reverse side of a fifteenth century medal.

Recreations in Cartography

December 30, 2013By Caitlin DempseyMaps and Cartography

Recreations in Cartography was written Bertelle M. Lyttle and first published in Harpers Monthly Magazine for its April 1902 issue.

Land use map from CARETS Final Report, 1979.

GIS From the Past: CARETS

In the early 1970s, a joint pilot project between NASA and the USGS sought to test out the feasibility of integrating data from Landsat and high-altitude aircraft sensors into a regional land use database.

Geospatial Climate Models Show How Fire Seasons Are Changing

Changing technologies, including new satellite systems, and better climate and fire modeling, including the integration of these tools and data capture methods, will likely mean improved fire modeling in the future.

Elements of a Map

Maps are the primary tools by which spatial relationships are visualized. Maps therefore become important documents. There are several key elements that should be included each time a map is created in order to aid the viewer in understanding the communications of that map and to document the source of […]

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