The Map Room

Charlie Frye has an interesting post up on the ESRI Mapping Center blog about the challenge of having to make a map with “unfit” data. “Unfit data will never work to make a good map. It’s a fact,” he writes. “My colleagues on this project, beyond being very good at their jobs, were undeterred realists. They knew the data wasn’t perfect; it’s all we had. In their view it was more important to get our work done than to fret over not having a beautiful map. Further, if I, the cartographer, couldn’t fix it, then that was an even better excuse than any of them not being able to fix it.”