Alex McPhee: “I love watching over people’s shoulders as they interact with what I do.”
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Val Marie independent cartographer Alex McPhee describes learning to create enormous reference maps, his pre-mapping road trips, rural Saskatchewanians’ surprise in finding every train station on his provincial map (they didn’t believe him), how cartographers need to observe people interacting with their maps, and how nothing sells 3x5-ft maps like a radio interview. See his work at awmcphee.ca
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