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Lee France: “It was fun to try to achieve those paper map elements in this new digital space.”

Lee France: “It was fun to try to achieve those paper map elements in this new digital space.”

FromVery Expensive Maps


Lee France: “It was fun to try to achieve those paper map elements in this new digital space.”

FromVery Expensive Maps

ratings:
Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Sep 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Sandpoint cartographer Lee France on making his first topos in Chile, spending months on a single map for National Geographic Trails Illustrated, the challenge of making an attractive interactive map that includes every scale from hilltop to hemisphere, how an up-to-date cadastral layer can make or break your hunting map, how his team of technical cartographers at OnX maintains three discrete map products, and the high-stoke activities his users get up to. See his work at leefrance.me

OnX Maps
Gaia GPS
National Geographic Trails Illustrated
MAPublisher
Tom Patterson
Sarah Bell’s shaded relief tutorial
Kate LeRoux
David Lambert
NACIS
Maputnik
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Released:
Sep 11, 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