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 Need maps for your org’s reports, decks, walls and events? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 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. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – ⁠https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF⁠