Hand-drawn maps [Slate Magazine]

[kurumi]

April 2010 article about verisimilitude and design decisions in hand-drawn maps we make for friends and family: http://www.slate.com/id/2252161/pagenum/all/

It has Alexander Calder's map to Roxbury, CT (already posted in this forum) along with other interesting maps including details of how to avoid the toll station on I-95 in Delaware.

The article is actually part of a series with roadgeek interest: assorted road signs, slideshow, including old CA 7; the effect more widespread GPS usage could have on the need for road signs; road sign usability; and a few others.

[realjd]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing!

Personally, my hand drawn maps tend to not be geographically correct, but still convey the required information needed to get to the destination. Think the DC or London subway map vs. the NYC subway map. Looking through the article, it appears that most people do that in some form or another.

[Henry]

Interesting read there! Takes me back to the days of marking up old maps with my dream highways...but in a simpler form.

[yakra]

I really dig the Avoiding the Delaware Turnpike Toll map, what with is properly styled state route shields, depictions of just the interchange ramps relevant to the shunpiking route's movements, and its other little touches of personality.