AZ Republic: ‘Mapmaker’s Work Outdated by Time It’s Printed’

Another story about growth outpacing mapmaking, as the Arizona Republic looks at the Phoenix Metropolitan Street Atlas, published by local map store Wide World of Maps, and its cartographer, Bob Cournoyer, who has to deal with an average of 4,000 map changes every year. Via James Fee.

See previous entries: LA Times: Maps Outpaced by Suburban Growth; Wide World of Maps Profiled.

Posted on Friday, July 28, 2006 at 8:21 AM
Categories: Roads, Surveying

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Well, I guess that’s what you get for being a mapmaker in the most sprawling city in the western hemisphere. You could hire someone to help or do regularly scheduled, less frequent updates to make life easier. Or move.

4000 changes could also not really be that much when 2000 of them are merely drawing a line for a new street in Illustrator and a new develpment could be 400 changes. I’ve done maps from aerials frequently and it isn’t really as much work as people think.

Jeff | 07/28/2006 at 2:09 PM | #

I don’t know; it sounded a bit more involved than simply tracing lines in Illustrator. Compiling all that data can’t be a cinch.

Jonathan Crowe | 07/28/2006 at 7:12 PM | #

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