Picture yourself creating a map of a single neighborhood on a piece of paper. Initially, you might think you should draw every street, building, sidewalk, tree, and parking lot. Before long, the map is cluttered, labels cover each other, and…
Since a bus stop, river, and forest take up space in differing ways, they cannot be represented using the same map symbol. Geographers typically categorize features as points, lines, or areas. Knowing which category a feature falls into will help…
Why can a map have all the correct information on it and still be hard to read? Overcrowding is the result of having too many roads, boundaries, labels, symbols, and other embellishments competing for the available space. Even if no…
It’s possible to have two maps with the same roads, borders, labels, and symbols and still have one show the viewer what they’re supposed to look at and the other have the viewer looking everywhere. Visual hierarchy is the arrangement…