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Cartographic Perspectives Perspectives 1 Journal of the North American Cartographic Information Society Number 65, Winter 2010 Number 65, Winter 2010 cartographicCartographic perspectives Perspectives 1 Journal of the North American Cartographic Information Society Number 65, Winter 2010 From the Editor In this Issue Dear NACIS Members: OPINION PIECE Outside the Bubble: Real-world Mapmaking Advice for Students 7 The winter of 2010 was quite an ordeal to get through here on the FEATURED ARTICLES eastern side of Big Savage Moun- Considerations in Design of Transition Behaviors for Dynamic 16 tain. A nearby weather recording Thematic Maps station located on Keysers Ridge Sarah E. Battersby and Kirk P. Goldsberry (about 10 miles to the west of Frostburg) recorded 262.5 inches Non-Connective Linear Cartograms for Mapping Traffic Conditions 33 of snow for the winter of 2010. Yi-Hwa Wu and Ming-Chih Hung For the first time in my eleven- year tenure at Frostburg State REVIEWS University, the university was Cartography Design Annual # 1 51 shut down for an entire week. Reviewed by Mary L. Johnson The crews that normally plow the sidewalks and parking lots were Cartographic Relief Presentation 53 snowed in and could not get out of Reviewed by Dawn Youngblood their homes. As storm after storm swept through the area, plow- GIS Tutorial for Marketing 54 ing became more difficult. There Reviewed by Eva Dodsworth wasn’t enough room to pile up the snow. Even today, snow drifts The State of the Middle East: An Atlas of Conflict and Resolution 56 remain dotted amidst the green- Reviewed by Daniel G. Cole ing fields. However, it appears as though spring will pass us by as CARTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS summer apparently is already here More than Just a Pretty Picture: The Map Collection at the Library 59 with several days that have broken of Virginia existing record high temperatures. Cassandra Britt Farrell Once again, this issue of CP con- tains a mixture of cartographic of- THE PRACTICAL CARTOGRAPHER’S CORNER ferings which I hope you will find How to Create a Text Halo Mask in Illustrator CS3/CS4 63 intriguing. I hope you took time Alex Tait to read through the letter from President Margaret Pearce. As you VISUAL FIELDS can tell, there is quite a lot happen- 3D Birds-eye-view Raster Maps 65 ing in the NACIS and CP world. I Derek Tonn and Michael Karpovage will detail a bit more on changes that you will see to CP later. For COLOR FIGURES 67 now, this issue of CP begins with an opinion piece from Tom Patter- son entitled “Outside the Bubble: (continued on page 3) Number 65, Winter 2010 2 cartographic perspectives Fritz Kessler, Cartographic Perspectives Editor Journal of the Department of Geography Frostburg State University North American Cartographic 230 Gunter Hall Information Society 101 Braddock Blvd Frostburg, MD 21532 ©2010 NACIS ISSN 1048-9085 (301) 687-4266 www.nacis.org fax: (301) 687-4495 [email protected] Editorial Board Section Editors Sarah Battersby Assistant Editor The Practical Cartographer’s University of South Carolina Jim Anderson Corner Florida State University Alex Tait Barbara Buttenfield [email protected] International Mapping University of Colorado-Boulder alex@internationalmapping. Copy Editor com Matthew Edney Mary Spalding University of Southern Maine Potomac State College of Reviews University of Wisconsin West Virginia Univerisity Mark Denil Cartographer at Large Dennis Fitzsimons mark_denil_maps@hotmail. Humboldt State University Cartographic Collections Angie Cope com Amy Griffin AGS Library University of [email protected] Visual Fields New South Wales – ADFA Mike Hermann University of Maine Patrick Kennelly Mike_Hermann@umit. Long Island University maine.edu CW Post Campus Mike Leitner Louisiana State University Amy Lobben University of Oregon Margaret Pearce Ohio University Keith Rice University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point Anthony Robinson Penn State University Julia Seimer University of Regina Number 65, Winter 2010 cartographic perspectives 3 (letter from the editor continued) a correction to Martin Wood’s piece describes how they utilized piece titled “The Maps Collec- Adobe Photoshop to create realis- Real-world Mapmaking Advice for tion of the National Library of tic landscapes for Hudson Valley Students” that should be a must Australia” that appeared in issue Community College’s new 3D read for every cartography student #63 and contained several errors. birds-eye-view campus map. (and their professors, too!). Tom A corrected version of the open- And now, I will report on some relates his decades of map-making ing paragraph is reprinted. The important updates to CP’s status. experience, offering guidance in main piece titled “More than Just I recently met with the NACIS simple terms on how to make bet- a Pretty Picture: The Map Col- Board in Madison, Wisconsin, as ter maps. The two featured articles lection at the Library of Virginia” part of the annual spring NACIS both highlight experimentation. is penned by Cassandra Farrell Board meeting where I reported The first article titled “Consid- of the Library of Virginia. Here, on the rather gloomy status of the erations in Design of Transition she gives an overview of the map journal. To date, I have not re- Behaviors for Dynamic Thematic collection housed at the Library ceived any submissions for peer- Maps” by Sarah Battersby and of Virginia. The next section, reviewed publication consider- Kirk Goldsberry reports research “The Practical Cartographer’s ation in 2010. This number comes findings that investigate how static Corner,” replaces the Mapping on the heels of only a handful of principles of thematic map design Methods and Tips section. Alex submissions for 2009. If the journal do not always effectively commu- Tait, of International Mapping, maintains this submission status nicate in a dynamic environment. is the editor for this new sec- quo, it will cease to exist out of The second article titled “Non- tion. Here, Alex gives practical attrition. This fact is non-refutable, Connective Linear Cartograms for advice (hence the name) targeted and thus some kind of new think- Mapping Traffic Conditions” by toward the novice map maker ing has to emerge or CP will fade. Yi-Hwa Wu and Ming-Chih Hung on a broad range of topics. We Thus, the first order of business discusses novel ways to represent welcome Alex’s wealth of knowl- was to discuss the future of CP. traffic flows through cartogram edge in the mapping field and Strong consideration was given symbolization. look forward to his continued to the results of the CP reader- The individual sections fol- practical map making advice in ship survey that was conducted in low. First up is the Book Reviews issues to come. The Visual Fields January of 2009 and the CP panel where you will find reviews from a piece presents “3D Birds-Eye- session held at the last NACIS sampling of four mapping-related View Raster Maps” by Derek conference in Sacramento, Califor- texts. Next is the Cartographic Col- Tonn and Michael Karpovage, nia, which collectively indicated lections section. Before the main both of whom are associated that changes are not only afoot piece in this section, you will find with mapformation, LLC. Their but they are necessary. As many of you know, CP experimented with a digital version (CP issue #64) in 2009. This issue was met with The Cover considerable success and reflected what many commented on in the Casting Lots CP readership survey and panel 1992, 60 ” x 84”, oil and acrylic/canvas session: allow CP to go digital. At Susanne Slavick the board meeting this sentiment Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Art was in the forefront as the decision Carnegie Mellon University to move CP completely digital was made. In light of this move, this In Casting Lots, the directional winds (originally designated by Aris- issue will be the last printed ver- totle and usually personified as cherubic faces exhaling with inflated sion of the journal that you will, by cheeks) become gloved hands in anonymous acts of inadequate default, receive in the mail. Fu- altruism — toward any imagined need, a need that is infinite. They surround an emptied world, measured only by ghostly traces of longi- (continued on page 4) tudes and latitudes. The resulting black hole is not one of nihilism, but a space for re-imagining, reawakening — much like the pregnant NACIS holds the copyrights to all absences of the Buddhist plenum void, the empty space full of poten- items published in each issue. The tial. It is a realm from which anything can spring forth. opinions expressed are those of the http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~slavick/ author(s), and not necessarily the opinion of NACIS. 4 cartographic perspectives Number 65, Winter 2010 (letter from the editor continued) offers completely digital and open tinue forging a solid future for CP. source which should help draw I hope you will help in welcoming ture issues of CP will be digitally contributors and thus increase him into the editorship. served through NACIS’ Web site. exposure of CP and NACIS to a I also wish to thank the follow- In addition, CP will become com- broader community. ing individuals who served as pletely open source allowing free CP will still offer the same peer- external reviewers during 2009 for access to the journal. The decision reviewed content as in issues past. their time and thoughtful com- to go in this new direction was Obviously, this decision will ments. made after serious consideration cause concern among some of of the NACIS budget. The cost in- the readership. A CP Transition James Akerman volved in printing a paper version Committee has been established Nat Case of CP typically runs around $7,500 to detail the foreseeable issues that Mathew Dooley while the electronic version of CP are involved with the move from Rob Edsall cost $1,800.
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