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Welcome to
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Cartopics
are short articles from the BCS designed as introductions to a wide variety of aspects of cartography and maps for the non-expert. We hope that you find them useful and informative.
Basic Issues in Map Design
Scale and measuring from maps
What is a map projection?
How long is the UK coastline?
Finding maps for free
Hasn't everywhere been mapped already?
What is it like to be a cartographer?
ESRI also have a great blog which has similar useful information. See below for some interesting links.
Explaining different map projections with animations
Natural Earth - the free world base map
How to work out map scale from raster resolution
Color Brewer - the free web tool for selecting colors for maps
Dot maps v. Choropleth maps
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