In 2009, David McCutcheon, ex-Lovell Johns, went solo with his mapping career.  I owe most of my skills and mapping know-how to David and I consider him to be my map mentor.I partnered up with David and we continue to create many beautiful maps together.  We do however have the freedom to find and work on our own projects.

 

 

“When I first traveled to South Africa in a training role, I came across a young woman with a talent for making maps and more impressively, playing pool. Little did I know this would be the start of a professional relationship spanning over 10 years. I have a long list of Cartographers who I can call upon when needed and Liezel is top of that list. With an eye for detail, an inquiring mind and quick to learn, she has matured into an accomplished Cartographer. However, I'm not sure how her pool is these days.”
- David McCutcheon,  Cartographer, FBCart.S  I  owner of DVDMaps  http://www.dvdmaps.co.uk/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The brief - PGUK maps

• Origination of 65 maps using base maps from http://www.flosm.de (credit given to OSM)

• Maps:  Regional, DPS and SPS

• Restyle map

• Add all labels

• Add building shapes and POI’s from editorial notes supplied and other research sources

 

The brief - Green Bus maps

• Apply round joins to all linework

• Tidy motorway centrelines & simplify

• Clean up major junctions

• Improve town name positioning

• Review spacing of road numbers

• Review position of motorway junction numbers

• Reinstate unplaced labels where required

• The bus routes need to exactly follow the data

• Name every road/street that the route follows. Use Leader lines where required

• Reposition the bus stops over the new route

• Add the timing info for each bus stop

 

The brief - Bradt new maps

• Use the hand drawn notes on the scans provided

• to originate a new map using references sources

• Use the key document containing points of interest

• mentioned in the chapters to add them to the maps

• Make sure to adhere to the styling on the Bradt stylesheet

• Use the appropriate frame size and type of map, eg. regional/town plan etc

 

The brief - Bradt conversions

• Convert Freehand to Illustrator

• Create a layer structure and relayer the data

• Change the map number, date and the map title.

• Replace symbols

• Reunite fragmented text

• Restyle the scale bar and all pattern fills

• Be sure to work in Overprint preview mode