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Storybook cartography

How to make your maps look like storybook illustrations...because storybook illustrations!

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Toasted Cartography: Burn a Tasty Vignette Into Your Map Layout

AKA how to steal ideas from photography to make better maps

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Cartography checklists

Ask these questions throughout the map-making process to help you make the best map possible.

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How to make a map: A short course in cartography from Learn ArcGIS

A new self-guided course to help you learn how to make beautiful and effective maps.

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X-Ray cartography in ArcGIS Online

How to use blend modes and data-driven transparency to make a thematic map with imagery instead of regular old colors.

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Blending a balance between imagery and cartography…cartimagery

You don't have to choose between an imagery and a stylized cartographic background for your map. The world isn't so rigid as that.

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Imhof-ish cartography: now everywhere can look like Switzerland

Peeling back painterly tricks of color, texture, and atmospheric perspective, then building them back up in our own maps!

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Ice Road to Diamonds Part 1: Prep Your Cartography Project

Download lots of data. Explore it. Thin it. Prepare to map.

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Iceberg Map: Part 1, Cartography

How to make this map of heaps and heaps of spectacular iceberg tracking data.

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Cartography (full stop)

Cartography. is published on June 28th and launched at the Esri User Conference. Here, I introduce the book and give a taste of what to expect.

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