Cartographic Design Principles: Understanding of user requirements
This is the first in an eight part series of blog posts taking a closer look at our Cartographic Design Principles. Devised by our CartoDesign team, the principles are intended as a useful guide for...
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This is the second installment in our set of blog posts taking a closer look at our Cartographic Design Principles. Last week we shone the light on Understanding of user requirements and this week we...
View ArticleCartographic Design Principles: A clear visual hierarchy
We’ve been taking a closer look at each of our Cartographic Design Principles in turn and this week we are delving deeper into A clear visual hierarchy. Although we consider all eight of our principles...
View ArticleCartographic Design Principles: Simplicity
This is the fourth in our series of blog posts about our Cartographic Design Principles and this week we are taking a closer look at Simplicity. The concept for our own principles was initially...
View ArticleCartographic Design Principles: Legibility
We are just over halfway through our series of posts about our Cartographic Design Principles. Last week we shone the spotlight on Simplicity and this week we continue our series as we turn our...
View ArticleCartographic Design Principles: Consistency
This is the sixth part in our series of posts looking in more detail at our Cartographic Design Principles. This week we are going to focus on Consistency. Consistent cartography – familiarity breeds...
View ArticleCartographic Design Principles: Accessibility
This is the penultimate post in our series about our Cartographic Design Principles. Accessibility is a broad subject but one that is very important to the success of a map and therefore it should be a...
View ArticleCartographic Design Principles: Good composition
Over the past eight weeks we have taken a closer look at each of our Cartographic Design Principles in turn. This is the final post in the series as we switch our attention to Good composition....
View ArticleCartographic Design Principles: Summary
In our previous eight posts we have taken a closer look at each of our Cartographic Design Principles. We offer them as a set of guidelines, intended to focus and aid the design process when making a...
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