This map of Swiss landscapes was make to be reminiscent of the mid-century pen-and-ink landform maps of Erwin Raisz. The background is a repeating poster-print texture applied to a big polygon that covers the whole world. I started with water polygons and gave them a hatched fill with an alternating texture to get a bit … Continue reading Condensed How-To: Raisz-Inspired Landscapes of Switzerland
Here is a map of Switzerland done in an Eduard Imhof-inspired style. The topography uses an impressionistic palette of greens and ochers for the terrain lighting and shading, and has an atmospheric perspective shift to muted green tones in lower elevations. Similar to a previous version, but with an updated style resource and additional features. … Continue reading Condensed How-To: Updated Imhof-Style Map of Switzerland
Here is a map of Germany’s forests and cities, in a watercolor style. Here’s how to make it! Landcover data comes from the Corine Land Cover Program, SRTM digital elevation model images, water and borders are available from the Living Atlas. The styling comes from the Watercolor style for ArcGIS Pro. I ran a query … Continue reading Condensed How-To: Watercolor Map of Germany
Here is the map of Germany I shared earlier, rendered as topographic stacks of construction paper. For a detailed how-to, if you’d prefer, find all the steps and context here. In the meantime, here’s a punch list of how it went down… SRTM getting… Merging and blurring… Contouring… Applying a Paper Cut style and painting … Continue reading Condensed How-To: Germany Paper Cut Map
I’m very honored and insatiably excited to have been invited to do some talking/sharing/showing/mappy stuff in Germany and Switzerland this March. Part of this trip involves making map posters to give away at the Esri Konferenz 2020 in Bonn, hosted by Esri Germany and Esri Switzerland. I’m making two posters of each country. Here they … Continue reading Some Maps of Germany & Switzerland
Here is an election cartogram. Here is a two-part series of how (and why) to make it… Part 1 Part 2 Continue reading Steampunk Election Cartogram
