Lets work together

Cartographic design in today’s world is all about collaboration. There are no projects that are not reviewed, edited, fixed, noted, helped to produce, or at least referenced. Every thing in the world has been mapped to death, so today’s cartographers have the option of reproducing old maps. To do this, the cartographer has to collaborate with at least the original cartographer who produced the original production in the original projection. This referencing is the first step of collaboration. The next step is producing the thing worth producing and collaborating with other professionals and experts to come up with the best solution to any problems the publication may or may not accomplish. This could be in many forms, over the internet, through email, in an office, or simply by oral suggestion from one ideas-man to another. The next step is to send a pseudo finished piece off to an editor or publisher; this person or people mark it up and change the project to there specific specifications. This is usually done by many means of communication, but usually it’s done by people within the company or firm responsible for the print. All of these processes’ are done with a means to a greater good. All the cartographic communication and cartographic knowhow bundled into a package to try and create the best finished product available. With a single cartographer, we can only get one set of ideas, one manipulation of content, but with even two cartographers the ideas multiply exponentially and build upon each other for ever. Based upon this basic premise, multiple cartographers working on a project simultaneously is obviously preferred to a single projecteer.