Entries by Ted MacKinnon

Reinventing the Globe

I’m on a quest to carve beautiful, tactile, fully three-dimensional maps and globes out of wood. Based in the mountain town of Rossland, British Columbia, I’ve been looking for a way to reflect new social and cultural assumptions – more environmentally aware, more conscious that this planet is our home – by carving the world into wood using CNC router technology .

Mt. Edziza Provincial Park Mapping

In rural British Columbia, the conventional topographic mapping at 1:50,000 scale, from Natural Resources Canada, is now difficult to obtain and Provincial Park Mapping is no longer updated. Yet more recent mapping either does not exist, or involves large formats which are expensive to print. Morgan discusses a new approach, data sources, software, printing issues, some alternatives for the future, and the portability of this approach to other essentially trail-less crown lands in BC.

The Art and Science of Map Production

The Art and Science of Map Production looks to challenge the conventions of modern day map making. With examples to demonstrate the shortcoming of too art heavy and too science heavy in order to arrive at the conclusion that cartography and map production should strive to balance the art and the science for a better quality product.