{"id":121781,"date":"2011-05-26T02:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/what-happened-to-the-map-critique-station\/"},"modified":"2011-05-26T02:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T02:44:00","slug":"what-happened-to-the-map-critique-station","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/mapping\/what-happened-to-the-map-critique-station","title":{"rendered":"What happened to the Map Critique Station?"},"author":4331,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[38281,27041],"industry":[],"product":[],"class_list":["post-121781","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-general-information","tag-map"],"acf":{"short_description":"By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead\n\n\n\nPlease note that this is a re-post of this blog entry.\n\nIn the past, you may have noticed or vi...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Please note that this is a re-post of <\/em>this blog entry<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the past, you may have noticed or visited the Map Critique Station at the Esri User Conference (UC). This year, we’re taking a different approach to helping you improve your maps. Instead of the Map Critique Station, we’re providing a complete set of map evaluation resources that you can access before, during, and after the UC.<\/p>\n

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We want to give you the ability to improve your own maps through a better appreciation of what works and what doesn’t, rather than relying on external resources like Esri’s cartographers. Our goal is to teach about this very important part of map making and allow you to repeat the evaluation process with any map you make or your colleagues make.<\/p>\n

Before UC<\/strong><\/p>\n

We’re developing a map evaluation checklist that will be posted on Esri’s Mapping Center on the ArcGIS Resources page. This document will give you a set of best practices to consider as you develop your maps.<\/p>\n

At UC <\/strong><\/p>\n

We’re hosting three offerings of a 75-minute technical workshop session entitled “Value Your Maps: A Checklist to Map Evaluation.” This workshop, hosted by Esri’s Ken Field (Editor of The Cartographic Journal) and Allen Carroll (former Chief Cartographer for the National Geographic Society), will teach you how to objectively evaluate your own maps using the map evaluation checklist. It will be offered at the following times:<\/p>\n