Recommended reading for Indie Maps + DIY Cartography Auckland Laneway Learning class.
Useful / inspirational books
- “Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas“, Denis Wood (2010).
- “You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination“, Katharine Harmon (2003).
- “Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences“, Mark Monmonier (1993).
- “Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps“, Jacques Bertin (1983)
- “Maps and Diagrams“, F. J. Monkhouse and H. R. Wilkinson (1952).
Online goodness
- www.dear-data.com :
Giorgia Lupi + Stefanie Posavec’s analog data drawing project.
- maps.stamen.com :
beautiful maps, including the toner style we used as a basemap.
- makingmaps.net : a blog about making maps for folk untrained in cartography.