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From post by Evan Applegate, 4/29/2024:

Finished the second iteration of my Monterey Bay map, this one styled like a 1915 topo. Again, all maps could use another year of refinement, but it's time for the next style. Production notes:

1) Contours too jaggy, too many orphan paths...next time downsample the DEM, blur, then make the contours? That'll be smoother? Also if I could get QGIS to export curved labels without breaking the text paths that'd be primo.

2) Three-color limit, no type halos, no leader lines = a rough time labeling. 1915's cartographers didn't set labels atop features of the same color, so town names were placed to the side of their referents. This taught me how much I lean on halos and leaders.

3) In those old USGS topos the railways were labeled but the streets were not. Transit......

4) Buildings: couldn't figure out how to generalize "clutch of buildings within 50m of each other" into "single correctly-angled rectangle." Some QGIS/OGR sorcerer might've figured this out?

5) This is missing a bunch of stuff: county lines, survey points, bridges, tunnels, springs. WELL the next one will include all that.

Now this map belongs to you dear LinkHeads, design files linked in the comments.

#maps #cartography

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[ 2024-04-30 02:34:30 ]

The French cartographer and engraver, Nicolas de Fer, was a master at creating maps that were works of art. The maps that he published were printed during the Baroque period when the decorative arts were characterized by ornate detail. De Fer’s detailed maps and atlases were valued more for their decorative content than their geographical accuracy.

Nicolas de Fer was born in 1646. His father, Antoine de Fer, owned a mapmaking firm. At the age of twelve, Nicolas was apprenticed to a Parisian engraver named Louis Spirinx. The family business was starting to decline when his father died in 1673. Nicolas de Fer’s mother, Genevieve, took over the business after the death of her husband. In 1687 the business was passed on to Nicolas and the profits increased after he took over the firm. Nicolas de Fer was a prolific cartographer who produced atlases and hundreds of single maps. He eventually became the official geographer to King Louis XIV of France and King Philip V of Spain.

One of de Fer’s major works is an atlas titled L’atlas curieux (The curious atlas). The atlas includes descriptions of cities as well as plans of churches, palaces, and gardens. 

https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2021/05/nicolas-de-ferthe-royal-geographer/ 

https://www.loc.gov/item/98687119/ 

Fer’s large-format map of the Island of California is the largest separate representation of the so-called island on a printed map. It is essentially a dramatically enlarged edition of de Fer's map of 1700, derived directly from information provided by Fra Kino, who had by then the myth of California as an island. The title cartouche includes a rather detailed account of California up to 1695, and is embellished by a number of finely drawn figures of indigenous peoples. The scale cartouche in the lower left quadrant is also decorative, with flora and fauna of the region. The original is an extremely scarce and highly-sought after map which appears on the market infrequently.

https://thevintagemapshop.com/products/vintage-map-california-as-an-island-de-fer-1720 

[ 2024-05-23 23:45:27 ]