Creating Beautiful Maps

[alukach]

A general dump of cartography pro-tips on how to design and create beautiful/effective/artistic/etc maps.

Answers to questions like:

• How do you get a good color palette?

[alukach]

This tool looks like it could fit in: make-surface

[alukach]

I think that this could either be paired with in the same session or be in a session after presentation #7: Intro to Mapbox Studio / TileMill.

[alukach]

+1

[spinzel]

+1
i find this website useful for deciding a good mix of colors for maps: http://colorbrewer2.org/

[albykov]

+1
also it is could be useful to mention ColorOracle to see how colorblind can see.