MapBrief™

In the final weeks of grad school, I asked a seemingly natural, innocent question of a classmate– “What kind of job are you looking for, something in GIS?” <with contemptuous snarl> “GIS? I’m a cartographer.“ And so it goes:  cartographers are the artists and we GIS people are mere data drones.  But there are a […]

That the web mapping explosion of the past few years has ushered in a new Golden Age of Cartography has been noted more than once (here, here, and here). But what is really exciting is that the increasing variety of tools for map-making are engaging folks from a variety of disciplines, including the emerging field […]