While it’s great to be able to track #hurricanes on hand-held mobile devices and get alerts without lifting a finger, there’s a classic elegance to old-school maps. As a geologist, I appreciate the thought that goes into every line (all the more so if it’s been drawn in ink.)
@cassandra17lina vellum, acetate and razor blades... did a little of that.
Swiss geological maps belong in art museums.
GIS gets it done so much faster though.
@b4cks4w One of my favorite quotes: “It is very easy, when attempting paleoenvironmental reconstruction… to draw meltwater channels draining a few million square kilometers with a No. 2 Koh-i-Noor pen. It is quite a different matter to stand on the shore and contemplate crossing the thing.” J. Gordon Ogden III, The Late Quaternary Paleoenvironmental Record of Northeastern North America, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 288:16-34, 1977.