Different biomes (?) on paper maps

[jbgibson]

Right here on the Guild, do a search for "Raisz" -- that's Erwin Raisz, one of the masters of semi-pictorial mapping. One post in those search results shows up titled "Forcing myself to do something" - that has some pointers to books that would help - Raisz and other carto authors. TheRaisz books do show up in an Amazon used book search, and won't cost much - I got a copy of Raisz' Principles of Cartography for Christmas :-). There was a post linking to some site that had a bunch of his land cover symbols . His heirs still sell his maps, and they aren't out of copyright, so you won't find scads of examples online. But if one can get a whole textbook for about ten US dollars....

A plausible reason there aren't lots of pen&ink mappers here is that gap between paper and computer - not everybody's got a scanner. You could check copier shops - some copiers are glorified scanners, and in the US at least they'll sell you digital versions of what they scan. Probably at least some such availability in Singapore?

Oh, and keep looking on the Guild - there are a number of threads about hand cartography, and the albums have some hand done maps. There's one in my Aurora-One album for instance.