Union City cartographer and Wall Street Journal graphics editor Carl Churchill talks his map vocation and EDM avocation, spending two weeks on an elaborate wildflower-detection remote sensing script before an editor (correctly) tossed it, making fantasy maps with GIS tools, what drum loops taught him about radar interferometry, why "get paid to do what you love" will make you fall out of love, and how you can make beautiful maps with a good inspo board, a tolerance for academic papers and a willingness to try. See his maps at churchillgeo.com

Glen Canyon Mœbius-palette map 
Ouray County Imhof-style map 

Eduard Imhof’s maps
Carl’s tutorial on making your own

Carl’s tutorial on creating fantasy maps with real data
QGIS RVT toolbox 
Profile curvature
Californias wet year superbloom
ICA Mountain Cartography Workshop
Avenza MAPublisher
ArcGIS Pro
QGIS
National Land Cover Database
Charlie Loyd’s remote sensing data compendium

Cartographers he recommends:

Aileen Buckley 
Josie Sajbel 
Clare Trainor
Christina Shintani 
Emma Brown 
Becca Holdhusen 
Lauren Tierney 
Júlia Ledur 
Marie Patino 
Wanmei Liang 
Maddy Grubb
John Nelson  
Cooper Thomas 
Tom Patterson

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