In her talk, Sarah covered basic cartographic conventions such as using visual variables, applying symbol hierarchy, and using color effectively. The presentation was interactive and included examples ...

The book features 300 examples ... visual images that help us understand complex interactions.” In other words, maps are simply a way to visually present a set of data. In that way, cartography ...

But you don’t have to belong to some elite cartographic ... your final map (you might want to hide addresses so they don't clutter your street map with a tangle of numbers, for example).