In Defense of Bad Maps - Axis Maps Blog
▻http://www.axismaps.com/blog/2013/11/in-defense-of-bad-maps
let’s rethink what web cartography is. We cartographers are in a print mindset, no matter how much we think we are web mappers. The rules of web cartography are a mashing together of a bunch of different things: the principles of print cartography, web design, computer science, statistics and “data science,” and whatever else. Crucially, it’s all founded on cartography rules that were developed for static maps. We don’t need to start over, but let’s at least have a thought exercise: what would web cartography look like if we didn’t base its rules and principles on print cartography?
les slides :
▻https://speakerdeck.com/axismaps/in-defense-of-bad-maps
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