Robert Kosara had a very relevant article (for me, at least), about having the right colors to depict the information in a chart. Using a rainbow color map from a paper on water resources published in the Journal of American Water Resources Association, he explains in some detail why a beautiful looking map chart was totally misleading.
Tag: Maps
Gee Pee Yes? [Article]
The pervasiveness of GPS has taken the fun out of navigation, says this Smithsonian article. Quite possibly true. I prefer maps personally – even though it takes a little longer to get to where we need to – maps allow you to get a sense of the environment & the geography in a way that electronic devices don’t.