How useful is #Tufte for making #maps ?
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How useful is #Tufte for making #maps ?
►https://makingmaps.net/2007/08/16/how-useful-is-tufte-for-making-maps #cartographie #cartes #mapmaking
How Useful is Tufte for Making Maps? | Making Maps: DIY Cartography
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Edward Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1998, 2nd edition 2001) is a classic book, arguably his best, and certainly a key text in the field of information graphics (which encompasses cartography). I know some cartography courses use the book as a text.
I recall being inspired by the book as a neophyte cartographer back in the late 1990s.
The book looked great: its design communicated the importance of design (when most other cartography and information graphics books were clunky and poorly designed). The tone was serious and high-minded: I was designing information graphics. And I think I absorbed Tufte’s minimalist design philosophy, although cartographic design, at least the way I learned it, was largely minimalist, with no allowance for flourish, fake 3D embellishment, or other chartjunk (or “map-crap” as I call it in the Making Maps book).