I can envision this becoming a problem. I'm a GIS person--someone who makes maps using computerized systems. CAD is similar. GIS and CAD encourage accuracy--it's easier to input data with coordinates in many ways because you can do inputs in large batches than it is to draw freehand. Many cartographers who use GIS or CAD systems are not artists--we didn't get into this business to draw. Computers are about numbers, and so is GIS. That's the strength of GIS.
A GIS is not a map, it's a Geographic Information System. For instance, you could build a graphical map of your collections storage that would allow you to search for any item by things like acquisition number, descriptive keyword--and, providing it was where it should be, the map would lead you right to it. GIS could be linked right to Past Perfect data, I think (I'm not sure--I've never actually tried to do that). You could also do this with an exhibition design, linking notes about lighting or Past Perfect data to the location of an object.
Anyway, I'll stop going on about GIS, because I realize that my comment has stopped being relevant to the post.
Kathy Mancuso
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:08:34 -0500, Sharon Buford <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>Our museum includes 12 historic buildings on more than 10 acres. We desperately need an interpretive map--a map of the grounds with some very brief descriptive content. I would like to provide our mapmaker with some examples of this type of map (he's not a museum person and is having trouble visualizing something not necessarily to scale
>If I could be so bold to ask, What is his profession? I can't imangine anyone not having a clue how to do this. Write to your state tourism office, there are lots of brochures for historic districts out there that have "Not To Scale Maps" Many architects do their site plans that way - draw to scale then cho and reduce. I can't think of any on the web - NPS site is down, they have some good ones of battlefields. If nothing else, tell him to use cut out the Distance between buildings and add a note that tells the distance. OR he could reduce it.
>Good Luck
>Sharon Buford,
>BS Architectural Studies
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