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  • draft of Town of Kingsville tourist map
    Mapmaker's Musings

    Two recent tourism map projects

    March 20, 2024August 26, 2025
  • North east France, Belgium, Germany 1919
    Mapmaker's Musings

    Wins and challenges for 2023

    December 5, 2023March 14, 2024
  • Portage La Prairie city map for tourism kiosks
    Mapmaker's Musings

    Designing a City Map of Portage La Prairie

    July 17, 2023August 2, 2023
  • map showing location of Kayak Shack in Kemah, Texas; bright blue water, bright green land, roads in white and labelled in black; three paddling routes coloured by route, with name and distance in text boxes next to the routes; restaurants and landmarks plotted and numbered and listed in a legend in upper right; Kayak Shack logo on lower right; Avenza Maps QR code in lower left
    Mapmaker's Musings

    A Paddling Map for a Tourist Business

    May 18, 2023March 14, 2024
  • photo of Julie Witmer, text "I'm Julie Witmer, and I make maps"; logo for Julie Witmer Custom Map Design in upper left, with text "Celebrating 10 years!"
    Mapmaker's Musings

    A look at the first 10 years of my cartography business

    April 20, 2023July 17, 2023
  • greyscale map showing the cruising track of the USS Lancaster in the Mediterranean Sea in 1881-1882
    Mapmaker's Musings

    On the tracks of General Waller – Mapping a biography

    March 23, 2023August 2, 2023
  • final draft of A3 landscape orientation map of Gibraltar Nature Reserve, with dark blue sea, Gibraltar land area in pale green, nature reserve in darker green, airport and ports in grey; ship symbol for cruise terminal, red squares for entrance points to Gibraltar and reserve; black bus symbol for coach parking; black taxi symbols for taxi stands; bright blue dolphin symbol for dolphin tours, purple taxi symbol for private tour pickup location, green bicycle for e-bikes; numbered parking locations; two legend boxes - one for general map symbols, one for experience pick up locations and cable car stations; in the reserve - yellow markers for attractions, brown Macaque symbol for pack locations, blue binocular symbol for viewpoints, symbols for public toilets
    Mapmaker's Musings

    Mapping the Gibraltar Upper Rock Nature Reserve

    February 24, 2023August 2, 2023
  • Map of CAPREIT rental properties in Domaine Lebourgneuf in Quebec City
    Mapmaker's Musings

    Maps of rental properties for marketing

    January 20, 2023August 2, 2023
  • terrain image of northern India with yellows, greens, and light greys; shows locations and route mentioned in Paul Ritchie's book
    Mapmaker's Musings

    That’s (almost) a wrap on 2022!

    December 9, 2022August 2, 2023
  • Map of fantasy realm of Yunali in books by M.K. MacLean; continent outlines, water lines with grey ocean, rivers, mountains, trees, roads, orchards, villages
    Mapmaker's Musings

    Mapping a fantasy realm for a novel

    October 28, 2022August 2, 2023
  • final greyscale map of historical England in the 12th century for book, Eternal Queen
    Mapmaker's Musings

    Map of 12th Century England for a Historical Novel

    June 6, 2022August 2, 2023
  • Poster map of Carlsbad, Oceanside, and Encinitas on wall of Beach Vibe
    Mapmaker's Musings

    An area tourist map for a bike rental business

    April 29, 2022August 2, 2023
  • map of Brantford river access points on the Grand River
    Mapmaker's Musings

    Mapping projects with the City of Brantford

    March 23, 2022August 2, 2023
  • detail of Vaughan tourism map showing neighbourhoods in pastel colours; streets in white, points of interest numbered on the map and labelled by category in the legend to the left
    Mapmaker's Musings

    Creating a new Vaughan Tourism map

    February 23, 2022August 2, 2023
  • map of florist shop delivery areas around Stony Plain, Alberta
    Mapmaker's Musings

    A delivery zone map for a flower shop

    January 19, 2022August 2, 2023
  • shaded relief map of part of Grand River trail in Kitchener
    Mapmaker's Musings

    My cartography toolkit

    September 15, 2021August 2, 2023
  • Two people looking up at a circular wayfinding map of San Antonio affixed on a lamp-post. Shows cardinal direction and neighbourhoods in different colours
    Mapmaker's Musings

    Finding your way with wayfinding maps

    August 9, 2021August 2, 2023
  • map of Provence for Herbarella magazine
    Mapmaker's Musings

    Travel Destination Maps for a Magazine

    July 7, 2021August 2, 2023
  • cropped detail of Map of Dallas neighbourhoods affected by Central Expressway construction
    Mapmaker's Musings

    Mapping Neighbourhood Displacement

    May 31, 2021August 2, 2023
  • final draft - AT hub map Lakeshore Village Sunnydale cropped
    Mapmaker's Musings

    Mapping a proposal for transportation hubs in Waterloo Region

    April 19, 2021August 2, 2023
  • old maps in a Paris shop window
    Mapmaker's Musings

    Why do I make maps?

    March 1, 2021August 2, 2023

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