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Creating Beautiful Maps #17

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alukach opened this issue Feb 21, 2015 · 5 comments
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Creating Beautiful Maps #17

alukach opened this issue Feb 21, 2015 · 5 comments
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alukach commented Feb 21, 2015

A general dump of cartography pro-tips on how to design and create beautiful/effective/artistic/etc maps.

Answers to questions like:

  • How do you get a good color palette?
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alukach commented Feb 21, 2015

This tool looks like it could fit in: make-surface

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alukach commented Feb 21, 2015

I think that this could either be paired with in the same session or be in a session after presentation #7: Intro to Mapbox Studio / TileMill.

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alukach commented Feb 24, 2015

+1

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spinzel commented Feb 24, 2015

+1
i find this website useful for deciding a good mix of colors for maps: http://colorbrewer2.org/

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albykov commented Mar 9, 2015

+1
also it is could be useful to mention ColorOracle to see how colorblind can see.

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