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Alan Smiles — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:11:48 +0000

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Roy Doyon — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:49:30 +0000

oops, that should read Judy Olson, not Olso, as Cynthia Brewer’s mentor (she was at Michigan or Michigan State I think.

Comment on The Aesthetician and the Cartographer by Roy Doyon

Roy Doyon — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:47:12 +0000

This is good information. Having taught cartography at a mid-western university for 7 years and having worked professionally as a cartographer I am acquainted with many of the points mentioned. I especially agree with the comment on ugly maps being associated with ArcMap and good maps with Illustrator. In truth, however, many of the best maps I’ve seen recently have been done using a combination of ArcMap and Illustrator. I think Avensa’s MAPublisher is an example of a recent product that facilitates the integration of GIS and Adode’s Illustrator. However, if you’ve been to the annual ESRI conferences in San Diego you’ll see that many good maps are being produced with just ArcMap. Indeed, I recommend Cynthia Brewer’s online ERSI “Map Design” course. She is a professor at Penn State, with excellent cartographic working experience (her mentor was Judy Olso (if my memory is correct). Regardless, her online design course shows a comprehension of educational principles in course organization and content. Hence the course is logical and when you finish, you’ve received a sound background in traditional map design. And she’s also the co-author of the ColorBrewer program (for choosing the right colors in association with map classification schemes) which I also highly recommend and is available online. In short, far too many GIS classes do not spend enough time on traditional cartographic design principles and this accounts for the mass of lousy maps seen at planning commission meetings and elsewhere. Many of them hurt your eyes. Another reason for lousy maps is that geography programs are substituting a GIS course in place of the traditional cartography class. This is for economic reasons and also, there is a lack of academically trained cartographers.
I think that many of the maps produced for newspapers and magazines and by the GIS crowd (yes this is a generalization) show a lack of comprehension of statistical classification methods. But that’s another story. Good maps must be attentive to the map audience, the available technology, good data analysis and finally map design principles.