The previous post talked about Margaret Pearce's call for an active, engaged map reader. Consider this post a call for cartography that's good enough to keep the attention of those active, engaged map readers. There are tons of great blogs and websites out there that focus on cartographic design - from the high end conceptual approaches to map-making all the way through to the … [Read more...]
Reading a map
A few weeks ago, Bucknell hosted Kansas State University geographer/cartographer Margaret Pearce for a presentation on map visualization and cartographic design. Dr. Pearce is a geographer who works on cartographic representation of cultural and historical geographies, especially Indigenous geographies. Much of her presentation focused on communication between the … [Read more...]