1. WELLINGTON WALKS An exercise in topographic map evolution ICA - Mountain Cartography Workshop, Taurewa, New Zealand New topographic mapping 8 th ICA Mountain Cartography Workshop, Taurewa, New Zealand 1-5 Sept 2012 1 New topographic mapping ICA - Mountain Cartography Workshop, Taurewa, New Zealand 1-5 September 2012

2. New topographic mapping ICA - Mountain Cartography Workshop, Taurewa, New Zealand 2 Principles? Continuous features – continuous symbols Accurately defined features – clear graphic definition Relief: subtle, integrating minimum colour influence Avoid contrasting lineal elements Careful use of black colour Re-evaluate traditional symbols Simplify symbol families

3. New topographic mapping ICA - Mountain Cartography Workshop, Taurewa, New Zealand 3 Cliff or river terrace Waterfall

4. New topographic mapping ICA - Mountain Cartography Workshop, Taurewa, New Zealand 4 Cliff or river terrace Waterfall

5. New topographic mapping ICA - Mountain Cartography Workshop, Taurewa, New Zealand 5 Hot spring Swamp Pine forest

6. New topographic mapping ICA - Mountain Cartography Workshop, Taurewa, New Zealand 6 Hot spring Swamp Pine forest

7. Relief shading a vital visual component balance with other components essential specially produced by Geographx 20m pixel: typically… flat areas 10C, 7Y, 7M, 0K deep shadow 40C, 30M, 25Y, 4K result is a clear legible image ICA - Mountain Cartography Workshop, Taurewa, New Zealand 7

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9. Black relief difficulties: Difficult balance between relief and text Conflict with area tints, lines and text Gloomy or muddy appearance of map CMY no K relief advantages: Managed balance between relief and text Managed discrimination between elements Clean map image with increased legibility ICA - Mountain Cartography Workshop, Taurewa, New Zealand 9

10. Offset printing ‘printing’ is not just printing new technology is amazing design to the machine capabilities printer uses Heidelberg and HP Indigo Paper ‘paper’ is not just paper useful to know the paper’s characteristics two-sided surface differences 94gsm high-wet-strength and 113gsm Sumo ICA - Mountain Cartography Workshop, Taurewa, New Zealand 10

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14. 14 Thanks for your attention and the discussion