From reality to a map: a creative process beyond technique?
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https://doi.org/10.3989/estgeogr.201922.002Keywords:
Thematic Cartography, Map Components, Methodology of Cartographic Work, Cartographic Values and CreativityAbstract
The map, as it is well known, has a great capacity to provide thematic information about a territory. It does it using a very powerful visual language, which implies demanding scientific, technical and artistic processes during the creation process, as well as receptive processes by the observer. For this reason, the map is not only a technical product, but it also implies a broad intellectual activity that could be comparable to any other creative process. This work synthesises the author’s experience as a “geographer who makes maps and teaches how to make maps”. It also provides reasons to sustain the idea that a map is more than the result of correctly using technical resources, and that maps are also part of the new millennium values and challenges pointed out by other creators in the literary field.
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