“Hedberg is a master of cartography, of making a good-looking map and creating a map that people will want,” said Ted Florence, president of the International Map Industry Association.īut some of Hedberg’s maps are just for imaginary journeys. Thanks to Hedberg’s national “Baseball Travel Map,” you can scout out your road trip to the New Mexico minor-league home fields of the Roswell Invaders or the Albuquerque Isotopes. “I give them to every single one of my clients.” “I haven’t found anything else like it online,” said Sue Luse, an Eagan-based consultant to students planning college applications. Another that shows the location of every university and college in the country. He has a line of college town street and campus maps. “Our fingers are in a lot of mapping in the Twin Cities,” Hedberg said. (A paper version is being handed out in downtown hotels.) Hedberg also created a custom map for the ESPN website devoted to the X Games in Minneapolis this weekend. “They flew off the table,” said Brian Kleist, who does marketing for Affiliated Emergency Veterinary Service, which commissioned the map. The map he made of Twin Cities dog parks and dog-friendly breweries was a hit at the Twin Cities Pride Festival last month. Many of the maps Hedberg creates are custom-designed as marketing or promotional giveaways 150,000 for Meet Minneapolis, 50,000 for the Nice Ride bike sharing system, 10,000 handed out at the Minneapolis Radisson Blu hotel. Need to find the nearest ice arena? Boat access point? Where there have been UFO sightings in North Dakota? There’s a Hedberg map for that. He has a pocket map that shows the location, hours and number of stalls in all of the Twin Cities farmers markets. “Sales in the traditional map industry took a huge hit.”īut Hedberg’s northeast Minneapolis company, Hedberg Maps (), has managed to stay alive by creating niche publications that make old-school paper maps surprisingly handy. “There’s no question there are fewer maps,” said Hedberg. Retail stores that specialized in selling maps and travel guides have gone out of business. Rename svgs (still on my todo: write an export script that does this).The mapmaking industry has shrunk and consolidated. Relevant export options: Styling: Presentation Attributes, uncheck Responsive. See us-interstate.svg as an example of multiple shield values in one file, offset text, and color.Įxport as svg with Use Artboards checked. Create an invisible box the size of the artboard. Increase size of artboard (keeping center alignment of text to artboard) to accomodate new shield position. If text needs to be offset from shield center (for none symmetrical designs), keep text centered, and adjust shield position relative to text. Widest ref should fit inside the shield, even if just barely.
You can adjust the ref guide accordingly, to show the approximate widest possible ref for that shield. only numerals, or only a few letters used as prefixes). Some shields only need a limited range of characters (e.g. Good sources are Wikipedia, or doing a data dump from Streets. Different shield values that have the same base design can share one file.Ĭheck how many reflens are needed, as not all shields need reflens 2-6. Here's some (probably incomplete) notes on my AI workflow:įind reference photos of shield (and svg if design is complicated).ĭuplicate the template file with most similar proportions (see dropbox folder mapbox-design => Nicki => streets-highway-shields => template), and rename it the shield value. We're only going to do one icon size moving forward – so it's kind of like I've already done half the work ) We also recently adjusted streets to assign a reflen value of 2 to all previous 1 values, so we do not need reflen1 shields. I'm happy to either take this on when I get back on 2/16 or have someone else jump in while I'm away.
I've redone us-interstate, us-interstate-business, us-state, and default, and created a couple of templates. We need country-specific highway shields for Streets – for all the new shieldvalues listed in the v7 changelog, as well as redoing all the existing ones.
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