In landscape architecture, there is a lot of emphasis on the creation of “rooms” or “garden rooms” to split a design into several livable pieces, each ideally with their own function and/or character.
This can be applied to our work as cartographers in the sense of creating separate but unified pieces of a map in order to separate the functions of those pieces but still maintain a contiguity of design aesthetic.
Thus, a section with graphs and charts can be thought of as separate-but-cohesive with a section of metadata, the title section, the supporting information sections, and the map itself. There is still a hierarchy between the sections, but they flow together (sometimes, and often with great effect, into one another), and make up a complete design.
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