IC w6 Map Design

I am thinking of making maps and have already made one prototype. I came by a site on map making. https://makingmaps.net/category/10-type-on-maps/

They have a lot of tips. A will write about the tips that are relevant for me. A lot of team I am familiar with but it is good to have a kind of "to do or think about list"

my prototype

The article I found is based on the map making of The Flight of Voyager map that was published in 1987 in the book Voyager by Jeana Yeager, Dick Rutan, and Phil Patton.

The Flight of Voyager map by by Jeana Yeager, Dick Rutan, and Phil Patton

Tips: How to Make a Map

To do research start by looking; what do you see?

Words, lines, continents, a grid.

What do you notice first? Black lines, gray lines, white lines ... why are they different?

What is the story told?

How to see it: the distance, arm length or longer

What is the map about, What's the point of your map? to tell the story of

Public: who is the audience?

Colors (about of press plates= costs)

Details of the map's design -line weights, type size, percent gray of different areas on the map.

Data the map is based on, What kind of data do you have?

The date

The title succinctly describes the subject and dates of the event.

The legend explains the symbols on the map

Map scale is shown as a representational fraction. What's your geographic framework? The scale on global maps varies significantly, so including a scale can be deceptive. But not including one can be confusing. The compromise is to include a scale with a statement of its limitations.

Inset maps could be used to reveal more detail. In the case of this map, such inset maps were not necessary given the general overview of the flight the map is intended to show.

© The map projection is noted in the legend area. Sources and the map's makers are along the bottom of the map.

The coordinate system, latitude and longitude, is revealed by the grid and text around the edges of the main map. An additional statement about the coordinate system would be super

Orientation where is north?

Border around the entire map for coherence (when needed)

Details of the days, hours, fuel, visibility, altitude, and distance are shown in the five data bars spanning the map. All inform the story of Voyager.

Data are shown in context: geographic, meteorological, diurnal, altitudinal, experiential.

Add visual differences

This map is the same as the one above but without visual differences; not easy to read at all.

The Flight of Voyager map

QUESTIONS TO ASK

• What tools are you using?

• Design the diverse pieces of your map into a coherent whole.

• One "big picture" approach to map design is borrowed from advertising: layout and visual arrangement.

• What is the message? The medium or the graphical excellence, the data?

• Use pictorial symbols to evoking the phenomenon they stand for.

FONTS

• Look and feel: Stone Sans is a humanist typeface (font). It is less mechanical-looking than typical sans serif fonts while retaining a clean, modern feel. It imparts qualities of significance and modernism to the flight of Voyager.

• Type size tells you what is more and less important

• Upper case; suggests their importance.

• Italics suggests flowing, natural phenomena, like water

• Bold suggest more important

• Tone; Gray type is used for less important information, black type for more important

• Color (red) importance

• Use 3 different fonttypes at most

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Sources

• AALST, J.W. van. OpenTopo.nl. Available at https://www.opentopo.nl [accessed 3 March 2020]

• DIY CARTOGRAPHY. 2012-2013. Map Art Exhibitions. Blog available at https://makingmaps.net/tag/cartography-art/ [accessed 3 March 2020]

• DIY CARTOGRAPHY. Article on: Atlas de Cuba | 1949 | by Gerardo Canet & Erwin Raisz. Available at https://makingmaps.net/category/10-type-on-maps/[accessed 3 March 2020]

• YEAGER, Jeana, Dick RUTAN and Phil PATTON. 1987. The Flight of Voyager map.

• SCOUTING TOOLS. Kaarten generator. Available at https://scoutingtools.nl/kaarten [accessed 3 March 2020]