Advanced Cartography

Advanced Cartography

When Your Map Lies: What Advanced Cartography Actually Fixes

Maps are promises. Every line, every label, every color choice whispers: this is how the world is . But anyone who has zoomed into a shapefile only to...

Advanced Cartography

When Your Map Lies: Core Ideas in Advanced Cartography

A colleague once spent three weeks building a choropleth of median income by census tract. The client loved the colors. Then someone noticed: the map ...

Advanced Cartography

When Advanced Cartography Fails: A Workflow for Cleaner Maps

You spent three hours styling a choropleth. The legend is perfect. Then you zoom in, and everything shifts—roads float over lakes, boundaries split in...