Very Expensive Maps

Toronto architect and artist Gabriel Camus discusses the 20" wide, 20 ft. long imagined cityscape he’s been drawing since 2018, a 100 ft. (!) illustration he's never seen the whole of for want of space to roll it out, the modern city as utopia/dystopia, how saying you study architecture can deflect rude questions about your street photography, the pleasures and hassles of walking in anti-pedestrian zones, extending his own roadscapes off the edge of atlas pages, and quitting his job to begin a 3 month trans-Canadian road trip to finally see some “true wilderness.” See his work at instagram.com/gabrielcamus.art

• Maxwell Illustration
• Julien.skp
• Sanyadis
• Le piéton du grand Paris
• Infrastructure: a Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape

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Königs Wusterhausen mapmaker Simon Polster discusses falling into his first topo mapping project after hitchhiking from Iran to Berlin, using Soviet topographic maps as a starting point to map Armenian hiking trails, donating data to OpenStreetMap, the eternal method of “play around with it ‘til it looks okay,” completing most of his map layouts in QGIS, spending hours in the map shop inspecting good topos, and turning order fulfillment into a geography lesson for his kid. See Simon’s maps at https://cartisan.org

• Dilijan National Park Hiking Topo Map
• QGIS
• OpenStreetMap
• JOSM editor
• Geonames
• Swisstopo maps
• Ordnance Survey maps
• Daniel Huffman
• Anita Graser
• Andrew Tyrell
• Tom Patterson
• Sarah Bell
• Klas Karlsson

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East Yorkshire artist-cartographer Kevin Sheehan discusses picking a fight with fellow history PhDs by drawing a 19x29” calfskin portolan chart of the Mediterranean, spending 2 months stippling the lunar surface with a dip pen, acquiring a novel accent after 20 years in England, heated conversations with flat earthers over his map of the moon, how to make your own 1400s-style transfer paper with candle soot, and how “there’s something good about using, or at least trying, old ways of doing things.” See his work at https://www.manuscriptmaps.com

• The Moon Map
• Whisky Map of Scotland
• Gin Map of Great Britain & Ireland
• The Paris Map
• Kevin’s calfskin portolan map
• The 1403 original by Franciscus Becharius
• Created for his doctoral thesis: The Functions of Portolan Maps: An evaluation of the utility of manuscript nautical cartography from the thirteenth through sixteenth centuries
• Pergamena
• Claire Fanjul
• Francesca Baerald
• Sara Farooqi
• Neil Gower
• Anton Thomas
• Rumsey map collection
• NACIS annual meeting

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Vancouver “accidental cartographer” Jeff Clark discusses his 100-layer 18-month project to map the Salish Sea bioregion, the importance of testing your waterproof trail map paper, getting a big boost from the local press, the eternal hassle of bathymetric data, consulting North America’s best reference mapmakers, and when to call a map finished (never.) See his work at https://www.clarkgeomatics.ca/

• Tom Patterson
• Dave Imus
• Bernhard Jenny
• Alex McPhee
• Eduard.earth
• Daniel Huffman
• NACIS meeting
• Shuttle Radar Topography Mission global elevation dataset

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Lisbon cartographer and artist Anthony Despalins on using the visual language of French 1:50k topos to create imagined landscapes, a toolkit of pencils, poems, markers, memories and ink, drawing inspiration from the Gironde estuary and Matthew 6:9, sketching entire layouts in reverse on tracing paper, chasing altered states while creating worlds, and “living in every inch of the maps” he draws. See his work at https://instagram.com/the_inland_sea

• 1:50k 1950s French topo example
• Add them to QGIS as a WMS layer
• Em Todos os Jardins, inspired by a Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen poem
• Kishkindha
• Zelenskyy
• Comme Au Ciel
• Matthew 6:9
• Christus statue
• Boire
• Gilles Baudry
• Mon Âme A-T-Elle
• Porque
• Portolan chart
• Mikael Asikainen
• Helen Cann

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Margaret River cartographer and surfer Grant Preller on catching waves down the Iberian coast in a 1980 VW bus, spending five years on foot marking promising breaks along 50 miles of Australian coastline, relating local history with maps, the plan to map ‘til “the end of [his] days,” and using Google Earth, 1890s coastline maps, 1:50k topos, the local library, an A0 sheet of paper, a pencil and CorelDraw to create an 8-foot map that shows you where to catch a sick barrel 🤙. See Grant’s maps at https://www.instagram.com/bomboramaps/ and https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063726562685

• Surf map: Contos to Bunker Bay
• Surf map: Deepdene to Contos South Beach
• Facebook page
• Guy’s Safari Maps
• Sara Drake (see ep. 4)
• Wildwood Maps

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Reno cartographer and outdoorsman Aaron Taveras on why he started making his own trail maps, “taking [his] sweet time” to create a hyper-detailed monochrome 4x5’ map of Nevada landforms, beginning a map with the raster data, an inspiring backcountry ski atlas, teaching cartography by disassembling National Park maps, and the beauty of low-amenity public lands. See Aaron’s maps at cartografix.co

• Kalmiopsis Wilderness trail map
• Grand Teton map
• “Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.”
• Taveras’ 2012 Humboldt Bay map
• My 2014 Bay Area map
• My 2015 Kiribati map
• Taveras’ 2016 Kiribati map
• Eduard shaded relief generator
• Avenza MAPublisher
• Avenza Geographic Imager
• Natural Scene Designer
• QGIS
• ESRI ArcGIS Pro
• U.S. Forest Service GIS data clearinghouse
• U.S. Geological Survey: The National Map
• National Land Cover Dataset
• National Park Service’s Adobe Illustrator files
• Bernhard Jenny
• Alex McPhee (see ep. 6)
• Tom Patterson
• Eduard Imhof
• Mike Hall (see ep. 3)
• Joost Grootens
• Geodetic Institute of Slovenia
• Raven Maps & Images
• Helvetic Backcountry Atlas
• NACIS conference

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Redwood City cartographer and artist Jake Coolidge on making maps the hard way with ink, graphite, a metal scribe, copper, wax and ferric chloride, the difference between in silico and in vivo cartographic generalization, creating novel projections with two-point perspective, learning to letter backwards, training the eye before you train your mouse hand, how a mapmaking process will teach you something about the landscape, and his efforts to combine the handmade with the digital. See his work at jakecoolidgecartography.com

• 15x11” Mt. Rainier: intaglio print from a copper plate etching
• 55x13.5” California
• 32x17” Columbia River Watershed
• 60x15” Western Shore of Lake Michigan
• Speculative bay area transit map
• Oakland bike route map
• DeLorme road atlas
• Stanford Spatial History Project
• QGIS
• Richard Edes Harrison
• Erwin Raisz
• Print Zero Studios
• Nikki Jabbora-Barber
• Harry Beck’s London Tube Map
• Eduard Imhof
• Daniel Huffman (taught me how to map 🙏)
• Amy Lee Walton
• Mamata Akella
• Jim Eynard
• Joe Milbrath
• Alex Fries
• Tom Patterson
• Becca Holdhusen
• Nolli map of Rome
• Turgot map of Paris
• NACIS conference

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Olympia cartographer and graphics editor Daniel Coe on his journey from Alaska sea kayak guide to geomorphology storyteller, what you learn in an office (and family) full of geologists, getting laid off and traveling the world for a year, how the paths of ancient glaciers shaped his neighborhood, the hidden landscapes revealed by infrared laser pulses, and how a few minutes at work adjusting one color ramp seeded hundreds of beautiful river images. See his work at dancoecarto.com

• LIDAR visualizations of shifting streambeds
• Mount St. Helens—A Mountain Reborn
• How LIDAR works
• DOGAMI
• Washington Geological Survey
• 1:24k WA geology map by Coe
• Dee Molenaar
• Tau Rho Alpha
• National Natural Landmark Program
• Quick Terrain Modeler
• QGIS
• Heinrich Berann
• Marie Tharp
• Tom Patterson
• Maddy Grubb
• Marty Schnure
• Carl Churchill (see episode 12)
• ICA Mountain Cartography Workshop
• NACIS conference

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Nelson artist-cartographer Anton Thomas discusses his travels from Utah to the Himalayas, creating “that mix of serious cartography and serious art,” logging his drawing time with a stopwatch, collecting photo references for 1,500 species, how drawing the little cartouche map-within-a-map can get out of hand, and closing on three years of work to finish his 40x24" map of the world. See his work at antonthomasart.com

• North America: Portrait of a Continent
• Wild World
• Alex Hotchin (Hear her tale in episode one)
• Melinda Clark
• Kevin McManigal
• Tom Patterson
• Coastline paradox
• Heinrich Berann
• Bob Waldmire
• Miguel Covarrubias
• Jeff Murray
• NACIS conference

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