I’ll be visiting Oslo Norway this May for a one-day cartographic workshop! Hope to see you there my Nordic map friends!

Learn more about the workshop, here:

Join Peter Atwood and me as we nerd out on maps in movies (and TV) in an “experts review” (I use that term loosely and reluctantly in my case) bonanza. We chat about what cinematic cartography gets right, what they might get wrong, and what we like about it all.

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We in Michigan have been using our hand as the world’s most convenient cartographic resource since 1837. It gets a little gnarly when you include the Upper Peninsula, but that’s ok it still gets the job done.

Here’s a map poster made in ArcGIS Pro, and I’d like to tell you exactly how it was made.

It sports cartoon-ized imagery, textures to make it look touchable, and overview globes that cast cute shadows. Here’s a how-to video...

Hey, check out the black labels for the black polygon features in this map!

Oh, wait, you can’t read them. Ok, I’ll just switch them to white, like this:

Foiled again! Now the white features’ labels are invisible. I suppose I could choose a neutral color like gray, but that would still be pretty hard to read over the medium-toned features.

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