Happy new year, everyone!
We start 2015 with a bang, and have Nicholas Felton on the show. We talk about his personal annual reports, typography, privacy, and how we all deal with data and tracking today. Great conversation.
One more link we only found later: Practical Typography is a great starting point for anyone who would like to learn more about typography and type.
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Next week, we will record a 2014 review with a few of the usual suspects. What moved you this year? Leave us a comment or tweet us!
Great podcast … just wanted to follow-up on the conversation about map labeling.
Eduard Imhof’s classic paper ‘Positioning Names on Maps’ can be found at
http://www.mapgraphics.net/downloads/Positioning_Names_on_Maps.pdf
There are several automated labeling packages specifically designed for tackling the difficult map labeling problem. There don’t appear to be good general summaries of the capabilities, but here are some references …
** Maplex (Esri) **
What is the Maplex Label Engine? (Intro on Features)
http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/map/working-with-text/what-is-maplex-.htm
Maplex Label Engine Placement Properties for Advanced Labeling
http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/map/working-with-text/maplex-label-placement-properties-for-advanced-labeling.htm
** MAPPublisher LabelPro – (Avenza) **
http://www.avenza.com/mapublisher/maplabelpro
** labelEZ (maptext) **
http://maptext.com/labelez/
As used in SAFE Feature Manipulation Engine product
http://fmepedia.safe.com/articles/Samples_and_Demos/Introduction-to-MapTextLabeller
Thanks!
Also regarding maps, check out David Imus’ manually labelled map of the US: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/01/the_best_american_wall_map_david_imus_the_essential_geography_of_the_united_states_of_america_.html