Geraldine Sarmiento of Mapzen has been exploring how cartographers communicate information close the globe to map readers through drawings on a 2 dimensional surface. She examines how cartographers purpose unproblematic lines to bring movement, texture too form.
In Explore the World of Form amongst Morphology Geraldine illustrates her thesis amongst examples taken from interactive maps. These examples include specific forms used inwards maps, such equally airports (eight of the busiest airports inwards the globe tin endure seen inwards the icon above), bridges, buildings too roads.
When these forms are examined inwards isolation from the residual of the map nosotros may laid about to ameliorate sympathise the visual linguistic communication used to communicate pregnant to the map user. Geraldine has so developed a tool which allows y'all to isolate specific forms on an interactive map. Morphology is an interactive map which allows y'all to report forms inwards cartography past times isolating specific forms on the map. You tin purpose the drop-down card to filter the map to exhibit alone isolated forms. For example, if y'all select 'airports' from the card too so all the other map features volition endure removed too alone airports volition endure shown on the map.
