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PICTOGRAMS

You are here!

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Landmarks

ActivityRoute

Public utilitiesExisting Vegetation

Major buildings

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Maps are one of the mostbasic (and informative)info graphics. The simple

map.A rectangle with a fewlines, some labels, and an

X can impart what it

would take hundreds of

words to describe. Mapsare an abstraction of our

world, a representation of

space.At their most basic, theytell us where. how, and

even why.

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Maps (informed bythe critical thinking

to create them) cantell complex andcompelling stories.

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Maps tell us how places relate to each other as well as where things have gone, aregoing or will go. But mostly, maps tell us how to get places. And that is what your

treasure map is all about.

Creating successful maps requires an ability to plan, attention to detail, design skills,

typography skills, and a considerable amount of time. You might be asking yourself

why you should go to such trouble when you can quickly sketch a print map or simply

link to an online map. Heres why:

Readability and impact. Store-bought maps must serve all conceivable readers with

all conceivable oals. The include information and clutter ou ma not need.

Dos and Don'ts:

By depicting only the features necessary to your story, you can make your map muchclearer and stronger than any map you can buy.

Look and feel. Your map should reflect the look and feel of your specific requirement,

site, or killing spree. A pirate map should look like it came from a pirate not

MapQuest.

Accuracy. If you know your topic (and you should) and you care (yes?), you can

guarantee accuracy.

Artistry. Its well known that accomplished pillagers tend to be frustrated artists.

Believe it or not, rendering a tasty little map is a wonderful exercise in design

precision and artistic restraint.

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Treasure accuracy. Labeling streets correctly and showing bridges only where they actually

exist is just the beginning. The craft demands pathological attention to detail. If you faithfully

render every undulation in every road, river and topo line, the cumulative effect is elegantly

intricate and something to be proud of.

Draw to scale. As Mr. T would say, Never fail, draw to scale! And show the scale. Maps that

are not drawn to scale are not maps. Theyre doodles best confined to toilet tissue.

Keep north at the top. Dont deviate from that unless you have a great reason. One

exception is a diagram where internal landmarks are more important than compass points.

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Show enough to make sense. X marks the spot, but who gives a galleon if they have no ideawhere the spot is?

Never show too much. The more details you show, the more subtle each detail must be. The

more subtle, the less clear. The less clear, the more annoying.

Be consistent. Consistency can be the hobgoblin of little minds, but it kicks ass when it

comes to maps. Use consistent styles within and among your maps.Layer. If you are creating a map with various elements, you must employ some degree of

least effective difference layering. To make topographical lines, park boundaries, trails,

streets and city boundaries all readable and useful, you must treat them with subtlety.

Group like elements into graphical families.

All city elements might be grays or solid lines while all park elements might be greens or

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Focus the reader. This is the key difference between the kind of map you have in your glove

compartment and the kind of map that tells a specific audience a single story. Look here! You

are here! The treasure is here! Readers should immediately know the main point of your

map. Secondary information should receive secondary emphasis, and so on down the line.

Details. Provide enough detail surrounding the X so that people can find the treasure.

Streets, landmarks, bodies of water, Taco Bells. Putting an X next to a road is insufficient

when a patch of quicksand lies between the two. Show just enough detail to guide, educate,

or entertain your reader. Any more than that and youre making a mess.This lacks local detail and is utterly useless. This lacks context and is equally useless.

Scope. Show enough scope that people can find the detailed area.

Assume readers know how to find their nearest major freeway.

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Drawing an intricate map of your neighborhood is useless to someone who doesnt know

your state, city or even your freeway exit.

Views. Consider the size of your finished map. Can it accommodate the essential details

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Task

Pick one street preferably a commercial street in your

city.Select destination A & B along the length of the street.The distance between destination A & B has to be notmore than 1-2 km.

Sheet size of the task is not less than an A2.Selection of Scale is left to suite respective presentations.

The instructions detailed out in the pages 8-10 have to bekept in mind while presenting the final out put.

Scale

Drafting

Mapping

This is a group work preferably 4 in a group. Ink The Streetscape In Any Medium Like Ink, Water ColorsB/W Or Color.

All relevant photographs or any other additional helping

aids have to be neatly composed in the same panel.Preliminary discussion is on Friday 9-07-2010.10:00 am

The class CR has to submit the group list and the street

selected latest by Tue 6-07-2010. 11.00 pm.

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