Hans van der Maarel on GIS and mapping. My views on the industry. Street name length vs street length. On March 22, 2010 by hansvandermaarel. Moving on, I decid.

Welcome to Map Practical, where the cartography gets done. These are the cartographic trenches, the domain of greasy hands, busted knuckles, and sore mouse fingers. This is the home of techniques, tutorials, and tricks of all things map. Your job is to make it look good! Map in the Back. Are you a cartographer or studying to be one? How many tricks have you found that slipped your memory and had to be re-learned? 8221; Well here it is, Map Practical! Adobe TV for Illustrator.

I lead a few geo related teams at twitter. Around local discovery and geographic infrastructure. Previously, I worked on poi and geo infrastructure at Foursquare. Before that, I was an engineer on Google Maps infrastructure. I do a less good job of maintaining a bunch of music related side projects. Away from glowing rectangles, I like to garden, hike and play guitar. Selected plants currently in the ground.

My name is Nathaniel Vaughn KELSO and I work at The Washington Post. As a staff cartographer in their NewsArt department. I produce print graphics for daily publication and, lately, interactive graphics for our online site. You can see some of this work in the Interactive and Print links in the navigation bar. Add Freehand-like abilities to your favorite design app. 1999; 2000; 2007-present.