Getting started with a new mapmaking effort can be very daunting. Staring at that
blank page, knowing you have umpteen elements that will have to be arranged on it in
a meaningful and good‑looking way, and not having a clue how you will do it is scary.
People are telling you they want photographs on there, you know you need call‑out
boxes, and how are you going to pick a color scheme out of all the options available?
Well, relax, because there’s one easy way to get started when this happens.
Use a variation of a map that has already been made. To begin, start looking
up other maps that you like. Keep a book of maps by your desk for such purposes,
go online, or sift through other maps that your department has done in the past.
There are two ways to riff off these other works. The first is to find a layout that
you really like and try to follow its general design on your own map, including
placement of the title, map element, and so forth. The second is to compile a list of
things that you like from each map that you want to apply to your own map, such
as color schemes, emphasis map placement, title fonts, and so forth. The list can
be consulted when you put together your own design so that you wind up with an
amalgam of other map designs on your own. Whichever method you use you need
to make sure that the final product isn’t an exact replica of the original. However,
this isn’t hard to do because even if you begin with the idea of using an exact copy,
you soon realize that all the unique qualities of your own data, audience, and com‑
munication needs will necessarily alter the finished product to such an extent that
it no longer resembles the original. (Conversely, an inspiration map could actually
lead you to not copy something that you find particularly distasteful.) Sometimes
we are stifled by our own desire to start from scratch and thereby create a truly
original work, thinking that this is the way that everyone does it. However, that
isn’t true, because almost all works of art are related to the art that has come
before them.
Getting started with a new mapmaking effort can be very daunting. Staring at that
blank page, knowing you have umpteen elements that will have to be arranged on it in
a meaningful and good‑looking way, and not having a clue how you will do it is scary.
People are telling you they want photographs on there, you know you need call‑out
boxes, and how are you going to pick a color scheme out of all the options available?
Well, relax, because there’s one easy way to get started when this happens.
Use a variation of a map that has already been made. To begin, start looking
up other maps that you like. Keep a book of maps by your desk for such purposes,
go online, or sift through other maps that your department has done in the past.
There are two ways to riff off these other works. The first is to find a layout that
you really like and try to follow its general design on your own map, including
placement of the title, map element, and so forth. The second is to compile a list of
things that you like from each map that you want to apply to your own map, such
as color schemes, emphasis map placement, title fonts, and so forth. The list can
be consulted when you put together your own design so that you wind up with an
amalgam of other map designs on your own. Whichever method you use you need
to make sure that the final product isn’t an exact replica of the original. However,
this isn’t hard to do because even if you begin with the idea of using an exact copy,
you soon realize that all the unique qualities of your own data, audience, and com‑
munication needs will necessarily alter the finished product to such an extent that
it no longer resembles the original. (Conversely, an inspiration map could actually
lead you to not copy something that you find particularly distasteful.) Sometimes
we are stifled by our own desire to start from scratch and thereby create a truly
original work, thinking that this is the way that everyone does it. However, that
isn’t true, because almost all works of art are related to the art that has come
before them.
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