You get what you pay for: professional cartographer Evan Applegate interviews better cartographers. Listen to the best living mapmakers describe how they create worlds in pixels, ink, graphite, threads, film, paint, ceramic, wood and metal. For show notes and bonus content visit https://veryexpensivemaps.com
Very Expensive Maps
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You get what you pay for: professional cartographer Evan Applegate interviews better cartographers. Listen to the best living mapmakers describe how they create worlds in pixels, ink, graphite, threads, film, paint, ceramic, wood and metal. For show notes and bonus content visit https://veryexpensivemaps.com
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February 5, 2025
Reynold Mackey: “When you pick up the globe, you feel time.”
<p>Colorado Springs artist and arborist <a href="https://globesculptor.com" target="_blank">Reynold Mackey</a> on his decade of hand-carving accurate physiographic globes out of solid wood, how to translate a 2D topobathymetric map onto a sphere, art as family business, casting globes in bronze, chainsaw-carving to Hendrix and dental pick-carving to Debussy, why hard work is an ally to meaning, learning welding, leatherwork and paper lacquering to make globe enclosures, the acrobatic stillness of trees, and how, unsurprisingly, he “could never take any shortcuts.” See his work at globesculptor.com and @globesculptor on IG</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://artcastings.com/" target="_blank">Art Castings of Colorado</a></li> <li><a href="https://astro.unistra.fr/en/tout-public/le-globe-celeste-de-coronelli/" target="_blank">Vincenzo Coronelli</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.manitouartcenter.org/" target="_blank">Manitou Art Center</a></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p>Need maps for your org’s reports, decks, walls and events? <a href="https://themapconsultancy.com/">The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast.</a> See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com</p> <p>I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: <a href="https://radiantmaps.co/">Radiant Maps</a>. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co</p> <p>Time for some map gifts: get 10% off woven cotton map blankets with code 10OFF, everything ships free – <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF">https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF</a></p>
October 24, 2024
Neil Allen: “Making a map in isolation is never a good idea.”
<p>Oregon lead cartographer and product manager <a href="https://www.benchmarkmaps.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Neil Allen</a> talks atlas production with <a href="https://www.benchmarkmaps.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">East View Geospatial’s Benchmark Maps</a>, the years of mapmaking and months of ground-truthing required to create a Texas atlas, adventures in custom cartography (clients include the U.S. Coast Guard, The Cascadia Institute and an <a href="https://www.themeateater.com/conservation/public-lands-and-waters/location-of-forrest-fenns-treasure-finally-revealed" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">eccentric millionaire’s treasure hunt</a>), the importance of asking the locals, using declassified naval data to map Monterey Canyon, and why sales and marketing is essential to a map business. See his work at benchmarkmaps.com</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://geospatial.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">East View Geospatial</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.benchmarkmaps.com/product/baja-california-road-recreation-atlas" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Baja California Road & Recreation Atlas</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.benchmarkmaps.com/product/texas-road-recreation-atlas" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Texas Road & Recreation Atlas</a> </li> <li><a href="https://www.ravenmaps.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Raven Maps</a></li> <li><a href="https://butlermaps.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Butler Maps</a></li> <li><a href="https://nacis.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">North American Cartographic Information Society</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHg6xpMyMFg" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Chaney Swiney’s NACIS talk on field checking</a></li> <li><a href="https://af9699.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/thrill-of-the-chase.jpg" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Map for Forrest Fenn’s Treasure Hunt</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.cascadia-institute.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Cascadia Bioregion map with David McCloskey</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/thad-lenker/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Thad Lenker</a></li> <li><a href="https://af9699.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/port-angeles-washington.jpg" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Port Angeles, WA Coast Guard Station map</a></li> </ul> <p>Need maps for your org’s reports, decks, walls and events? <a href="https://themapconsultancy.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast.</a> See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com</p> <p>I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: <a href="https://radiantmaps.co/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Radiant Maps</a>. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co</p> <p>Time for some map gifts: get 10% off woven cotton map blankets with code 10OFF, everything ships free – <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF</a></p>
May 13, 2024
Hap Wilson: “If there’s no risk then there’s no adventure, right?”
<p>Ontario explorer, mapmaker, and conservationist <a href="https://hapwilson.com/">Hap Wilson</a> on drawing 400 guide maps across 50 years, traveling more than 40,000 miles of Canadian wilderness by canoe, the one digital tool he likes (it’s Google Earth), saving lives by creating a map that, unlike the one it replaced, <em>did not</em> send tourists over a waterfall, retracing thousand-year-old trails to prevent their effacement by dams and clearcuts, what you discover after 200 trips down the same river, learning from the mapmakers of 1700 and the indigenous of 700, and why if a portage on his map doesn’t match the territory it’s likely a <em>force majeure</em> situation (“I don’t control the beavers.”) See his work at hapwilson.com</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://hapwilson.com/product/temagami-a-wilderness-paradise-2023/">Temagami Wilderness Guide</a></li> <li><a href="https://hapwilson.com/product/lake-superior-to-manitoba-by-canoe/">Lake Superior To Manitoba By Canoe </a> </li> <li><a href="https://cabinfalls.ca/">Stay at Hap’s eco-lodge: Cabin Falls</a></li> <li><a href="https://hapwilson.com/shop/page/3/">Original illustrations by Hap</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Thompson_(explorer)">David Thompson</a></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p>Need maps for your org’s reports, decks, walls and events? <a href="https://themapconsultancy.com/">The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast.</a> See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com</p> <p>I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: <a href="https://radiantmaps.co/">Radiant Maps</a>. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co</p> <p>Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven cotton map blankets with code 15OFF, everything ships free – <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF">https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF</a></p>
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