5 Principles of Cartographic Design

[jaerdaph]

Oh don't worry, everyone ignores me! (sob sob!)

I had forgotten that I had posted this. As the weblink itself has been taken from a listserve post and I do not believe that there are any copyright issues, I reproduce it below in case the link gets lost over time:

I think that what we tend to do at the Guild is to emulate maps that we like the look of (well, I do anyway!) but these principles do go a long way to assisting a cartographer in designing a map using a new vocabulary of visual language.

You know, I read this when you first posted it but I'm not sure why I never commented on it though. I bookmarked it as well, and I've gotten into the habit of reading it right before I open up a session of CC3. They're a good thing to have fresh in your mind when mapping. So thank you for posting them.