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Travis Folk: “Surely there are folks desirous of traditional cartography of a modern landscape.”

Travis Folk: “Surely there are folks desirous of traditional cartography of a modern landscape.”

FromVery Expensive Maps


Travis Folk: “Surely there are folks desirous of traditional cartography of a modern landscape.”

FromVery Expensive Maps

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Length:
37 minutes
Released:
May 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Green Pond wildlife biologist and map designer for New World Cartography discusses working with artist Tony Waters, radio-tracking northern bobwhites (quail) under the pines of the Conecuh National Forest, memorializing Aldo the Llewellin Setter on a map of game birds, and agreeing to a 9x14-ft project before knowing exactly how to uh, install a 9x14-ft project (it turned out great). See Folk’s maps at newworldcartography.com

Oysters of North America map
Upland Game Birds map
The family business: Folk Land Management
Port Royal Sound Foundation
Maps by Union Army topographical engineer Robert Knox Sneden
Books of maps curated from the Library of Congress by Vincent Virga
Underwater feature toponymic authority: GEBCO-SCUFN

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Released:
May 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (45)

You get what you pay for: professional cartographer Evan Applegate interviews better cartographers. Listen to the best living mapmakers describe how they create worlds in pixels, ink, graphite, threads, film, paint, ceramic, wood and metal. For show notes and bonus content visit https://veryexpensivemaps.com