Ask a mapmaker anything
Ask a mapmaker anything
Why can't you transcribe the globe onto a flat surface properly?
Do you make the non-wet bits green or brown? What about stuff that is wet, but not just water?
Are you on the back end or in the field?
How do you add shp layers to an osm instance via cartocss?
Didn't computers gut your profession?
What is a map
OP can you please check in my disks on the spreadsheet so that I know they arrived safely
You can, thats called a projection
Why did you censor antarctica?
Depends on the map, larger scale global maps have blue, some riverine charts have other colors. It can be for aesthetics too
A representation of a land or water area drawn to scale
Thank you
What do you mean?
any tips for drawing a fantasy map?
are there any good tools for this? Other than paint and photoshop
What do you think i mean you jew why is antarctica censored on maps and what are they paying you to hide
can you find on your map where Year of the Log commences?
Why the hell did you refer to yourself as a "mapmaker"?
We're not all braindead
Different countries have different claims, you should be talking about other areas of the world which are called disputed regions. You think that’s fun for me trying to figure that shit out?
Because I didn’t want to be too specific
Are you a cartographer who believes in the satellite gps conspiracy, or do you believe in triangulation?
Do you collect the map data yourself or do you work on the back end piecing it together?
Why do even sattelite maps censor antarctica?
>satellite gps conspiracy
Tell me more.
Unless it's some flat earth shit. Fuck off with that.
What skills and abilities make a good mapmaker? Also how much do you get paid?
Satellite collection is good, point collection based on digital elevation models is good for up to a meter at best (give or take) but an actual survey is best because that will get you accuracy to within millimeters
Both
Its just imagery bro
So more jew lies?
Computer skills, some programming automation is good too, an analytic mind. About 110k
Just look into satellite launching and try to piece together what little information is available to civilians. It's clearly not, what it seems.
Are you a white badge or a red badge friend?
You can get USGS DEM models and SRTM on the internet
What the fuck are those
Also worldview is free and digital earth, but you might have to pay for it
If you are OP and telling the truth, then you would know
K idk
Get the fuck out it’s not 1882 no more we don’t need mapmakers KEK
LOL ok
Fair enough, perhaps I was assuming wrong when I was trying to figure out if we worked together
Damn, that's pretty good money. What degree(s) does one need? I'm pretty analytical and detail-oriented. I'm not a big fan of coding but I could learn enough to specialize in something, like mapmaking.
>fantasy
Bumping for this.
4 year degree probably in geodesy, geography or math
>Just look into satellite launching and try to piece together what little information is available to civilians
There's plenty, you loon.
I didn't know they had degrees for geography but I like geography. What is geodesy?
Measurement and representation of the earth, like basically the different datums used based on different systems of measurement (for example the US uses different datums and coordinate systems than Europe) and understanding all the trig and algebra that goes into that. It can also be measurement of the earths gravitational field
May I borrow your monocle?
Interesting. It sounds pretty specialized, though. I'd guess most schools don't offer a bachelor's in that subject. Anyway, I may look deeper into this so thanks for the thread nigga.
We use computers now
Its fun, sometimes challenging when I have to learn new software but I enjoy it
How do you specifically define cartography?
Please don't give me a bullshit google searched definition.
I think of it in terms of hydrography, so basically everything that a mariner would want to know on his boat
>mapmaker
Not good enough to call yourself a cartographer, you fucking ponce?
Have you ever hidden any easter eggs into non-populated areas in your maps?
Give me answer. FUCKING BUMPZOR