Aaron Taveras: “I would stare at topos for days on end and thought it’d be fun to make them myself.”
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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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