The best American wall map: David Imus’ “The Essential Geography of the United States of America” - Slate Magazine: "American mapmaking’s most prestigious honor is the “Best of Show” award at the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society. The five most recent winners were all maps designed by large, well-known institutions: National Geographic (three times), the Central Intelligence Agency Cartography Center, and the U.S. Census Bureau. But earlier this year, the 38th annual Best of Show award went to a map created by Imus Geographics—which is basically one dude named David Imus working in a farmhouse outside Eugene, Ore.
At first glance, Imus’ “The Essential Geography of the United States of America” may look like any other U.S. wall map. It’s about 4 feet by 3 feet. It uses a standard, two-dimensional conic projection. It has place names. Political boundaries. Lakes, rivers, highways."
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American cartographers – map makers are lucky to find digital map data they need easly. It seems it is the most deatiled and cartographicaly beautiful map of America. I have heard about the map from the internet, by a newsletter. It seems that the attantion to the map rised since it is an award winning map. There are many articles and news on the internet about the map, and also a pdf file with the comparisons on https://imusgeographics.com/ . As a cartographer I can say that it is a “beatiful map”, with most detailed information. I would like to have one to see the map print quality. Many political maps shows the boundaries with different colours, but it is a courage to use single green colours for the borders. Becouse there is an axpectation on the users that the boundaries will be coloured. But this green single colour makes the map easy to use. I want to make a polical map of Turkey and a road map of Turkey with the physical map details in that style. I will soon put this political map on http://www.pusulaharita.com and also map prints for sale on http://www.mapist.com.tr.
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