"What is Custom Cartography, anyway?!"
That is a question we have heard at mapformation on countless occasions! Custom cartography is essentially a blend of graphic design with more traditional cartography skills, resulting in the development of very attractive maps and building interior diagrams for print, signage and the World Wide Web.
The typical custom cartography firm has fewer than five employees, with a client base located within a 50 to 100 mile radius of company headquarters. Roughly 150 custom cartography firms are known to exist on the North American continent. For the purposes of advancing the growth of the custom cartography industry as a whole, we have chosen to provide you with links to a handful of them:
- Artel Graphics
- Katherine Baxter
- Birds Eye View Maps
- Cartagram, LLC
- cartagram
- Chris Casady
- Cherie Northon Cartography
- Chicago Cartographics
- Jason Clark Cartography
- concept3d
- Demap
- DesignMaps
- Discovery Map International
- Eagle Eye Maps
- Marcy R. Edelstein
- Eureka Cartography
- Faherty Design
- Flashmaps
- Fun Maps USA!
- GEOgrafix Communication
- Hedberg Maps
- Jim Hunt Illustrations (Cartoon-Style Maps)
- Illustrative Maps (Maria Rabinky)
- International Mapping Associates
- Sophie Kittredge
- Lovell Johns
- Matt Maley
- James Mann Art Farm
- Map Illustrations
- Mapcraft Cartography
- Maponics
- Maps for Hospitals, LLC
- MollyMaps
- James Niehues
- North Arrow Cartographic Design
- Paskill Stapleton and Lord
- Perspecto Map Company
- Jack Pittman (Cartoon-Style Maps)
- Reineck and Reineck Design
- Ross Racine
- Red Geographics
- Red Lake Digital Media, Inc.
- John Roman Illustration
- Sketches, etc.
- Small World Maps
- Springer Cartographics LLC
- Three Scale Strategy
- Vahrenwald Cartographics
- Wood Ronsaville Harlin Inc.
- XNR Productions, Inc.
