GIS4007 - Module 1 - Evaluating Maps
As this is the start of this Cartography course, understanding map aesthetic and principles is the building block to creating your own cartographic maps. For the first Module, we were tasked with evaluating and critiquing maps that we can personally choose. Two maps were chosen, one being a well-designed map, and the other being a poorly-designed map. In analyzing these chosen maps, we should start to think about and shape our own cartographic style, while also learning the principles that make maps "well-designed". The principles that we are following and using to critique our maps are the "20 Tufteisms from The Visual Display of Quantitative Information". In the process of finding the maps I wanted to evaluate, I first found this hand drawn map of Todilto Park By Norton Allen from 1952. Source: David Rumsey Collection I really enjoyed this map, I thought it looked beautiful and was ready to make it my well-designed map to talk about. Though after looking furthe...