I was wondering if anyone else had similar examples to Seeking examples of beautiful maps?, but at a county or parcel level.
At those levels, I wonder if people will react the same, or if there will be other facts to consider at that resolution.
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perhaps your and my questions should be combined http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/3396/examples-of-beautiful-statewide-maps-that-have-a-lot-of-layers-20-layers – dassouki Nov 12 '10 at 12:11
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Eduard Imhof’s Schweizerischer Mittelschulatlas is probably the best example of applied beautiful cartography ever.
Codex99 has a very good presentation of him and his work here: Imhof wie ein Kartographische Rockstar
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Orienteering maps are good example of high scale maps. Very small features are represented on such maps, with a very detailed representation.
The way to make such maps is rather well formalised in this document.
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1Sorry, but im not a fan of this. Maybe cos I cant see the legend properly, but no idea whats going on. What are the numbers all about for a start? – jakc Nov 12 '10 at 11:55
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Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 scale mapping (known as Explorer Series)
Continuous across England,Wales and Scotland
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Maybe it is the reproduction, but it doesn't look very "sharp" to me. – BradHards Oct 31 '13 at 10:56
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The online version is a much lower resolution (72dpi) compared to the purchased tiffs (lzw compressed) are at 600 dpi. – Mapperz Oct 31 '13 at 13:24
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I love the Rand Mcnally maps. I suggest going to the local bookstore or gas station and checking them out. they're usually packed with lots of information and done in a very nice way
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