Was listening to a podcast a few weeks weeks ago and they mentioned a web site: davidrumsey.com. He has a whole host of maps. Many of them very cool. I did a fast search for maps of Santa Clara County. Came across a few. If you install the Java Client, you can actually download the maps at a very high resolution. In fact, I downloaded one map at the highest resolution (7 or 8 mb in size) and then plotted it out on our HP5500 at 60 inches in width. It came out great! No pixelation whatsoever!
Posted in Cartography, Web Site
It’s nice to see someone start a blog on cartography. It’s a lost art. I’ve found as great as GIS and online mapping has become, people eventually always want a nice hardcopy.
Will,
Couldn’t agree more. Output is very often the end all be all.