Redwood City cartographer and artist Jake Coolidge on making maps the hard way with ink, graphite, a metal scribe, copper, wax and ferric chloride, the difference between in silico and in vivo cartographic generalization, creating novel projections with two-point perspective, learning to letter backwards, training the eye before you train your mouse hand, how a mapmaking process will teach you something about the landscape, and his efforts to combine the handmade with the digital. See his work at jakecoolidgecartography.com

15x11” Mt. Rainier: intaglio print from a copper plate etching
55x13.5” California
32x17” Columbia River Watershed
60x15” Western Shore of Lake Michigan
Speculative bay area transit map
Oakland bike route map
DeLorme road atlas
Stanford Spatial History Project
QGIS
Richard Edes Harrison
Erwin Raisz
Print Zero Studios
Nikki Jabbora-Barber
Harry Beck’s London Tube Map
Eduard Imhof
Daniel Huffman (taught me how to map ?)
Amy Lee Walton
Mamata Akella
Jim Eynard
Joe Milbrath
Alex Fries
Tom Patterson
Becca Holdhusen
Nolli map of Rome
Turgot map of Paris
NACIS conference

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