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
Reynold Mackey: “When you pick up the globe, you feel time.”
Colorado Springs artist and arborist Reynold Mackey (https://globesculptor.com) 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
Art Castings of Colorado (https://artcastings.com/)
Vincenzo Coronelli (https://astro.unistra.fr/en/tout-public/le-globe-celeste-de-coronelli/)
Manitou Art Center (https://www.manitouartcenter.org/)
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I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps (https://radiantmaps.co/). See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co
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24 Oct 2024
Neil Allen: “Making a map in isolation is never a good idea.”
Oregon lead cartographer and product manager Neil Allen (https://www.benchmarkmaps.com/) talks atlas production with East View Geospatial’s Benchmark Maps (https://www.benchmarkmaps.com/), 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 eccentric millionaire’s treasure hunt (https://www.themeateater.com/conservation/public-lands-and-waters/location-of-forrest-fenns-treasure-finally-revealed)), 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
East View Geospatial (https://geospatial.com/)
Baja California Road & Recreation Atlas (https://www.benchmarkmaps.com/product/baja-california-road-recreation-atlas)
Texas Road & Recreation Atlas (https://www.benchmarkmaps.com/product/texas-road-recreation-atlas)
Raven Maps (https://www.ravenmaps.com/)
Butler Maps (https://butlermaps.com/)
North American Cartographic Information Society (https://nacis.org/)
Chaney Swiney’s NACIS talk on field checking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHg6xpMyMFg)
Map for Forrest Fenn’s Treasure Hunt (https://af9699.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/thrill-of-the-chase.jpg)
Cascadia Bioregion map with David McCloskey (https://www.cascadia-institute.org/)
Thad Lenker (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thad-lenker/)
Port Angeles, WA Coast Guard Station map (https://af9699.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/port-angeles-washington.jpg)
Need maps for your org’s reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. (https://themapconsultancy.com/) See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com
I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps (https://radiantmaps.co/). See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co
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13 May 2024
Hap Wilson: “If there’s no risk then there’s no adventure, right?”
Ontario explorer, mapmaker, and conservationist Hap Wilson (https://hapwilson.com/) 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, did not 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 force majeure situation (“I don’t control the beavers.”) See his work at hapwilson.com
Temagami Wilderness Guide (https://hapwilson.com/product/temagami-a-wilderness-paradise-2023/)
Lake Superior To Manitoba By Canoe (https://hapwilson.com/product/lake-superior-to-manitoba-by-canoe/)
Stay at Hap’s eco-lodge: Cabin Falls (https://cabinfalls.ca/)
Original illustrations by Hap (https://hapwilson.com/shop/page/3/)
David Thompson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Thompson_(explorer))
Need maps for your org’s reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. (https://themapconsultancy.com/) See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com
I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps (https://radiantmaps.co/). See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co
Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven cotton map blankets with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF (https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF)
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