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draft of Town of Kingsville tourist map
Mapmaker's Musings

Two recent tourism map projects

March 20, 2024March 20, 2024
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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