Live Mapping: Book of Maps style (Annual 2022)
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Hi Everyone! :D
In this week's Live Mapping Session Ralf will be presenting the February issue of the Cartographer's Annual 2022, with Pär Lindström's beautiful new "Book of Maps" style.
Come along and join in the discussion, or watch later :)
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I am in Kiev at present, so I will be able to join in at a reasonable hour.
Glad to learn Ralf's got his voice back from wherever Asa had hidden it last week. We must hope there are other cat-related distractions to prevent the same thing happening again!😉
30 minute shout :)
@Ralf Just a comment re the change to the naming style of new Annual issues. Rather than have it as "Style Name YYYY" would it not be better to name it, "YYMM Style Name". That way future annual issues would be grouped by the year and month they were released making them easier to find.
@jmabbott the issue with that scheme is that it makes it easier IF you know exactly when the style was from, but if you are looking for a style by name, it is a huge unsortable mess making styles much harder to find. It may make sense as you are following along the current year, but whenever you wanted a style from an earlier annual, it would be much harder to find.
Personally, I usually never remember when I style came out, but I usually know the exact/approximate name of it.
Obviously, the new map dialog could be better, it was written at a time when we only had a handful of styles, but until we get a better one, my vote at least goes to sort it by the most important part, the actual name of the style and not some prefix. (I am not much a fan of the "Annual" prefix either)
@Monsen Fair point. And thinking about it I usually look for the name first too.