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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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Cartographic Design Principles: Consideration of display format

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...

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Cartographic 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...

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Cartographic 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...

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Cartographic 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...

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Cartographic 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...

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Cartographic 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...

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Cartographic 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....

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Cartographic 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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