Looking to create extra pretty shaded relief or to start using Blender in your cartography projects? Make sure to check out this thorough tutorial.

How to Create Shaded Relief in Blender

Check out these 15 practical cartography tips to use in ArcGIS Pro.

15 Tips for Cartographers in ArcGIS Pro

Read about new exciting cartographic features in QGIS and how they'll improve your maps here.

Introducing Annotation Layers in QGIS 3.22

Magrit is an intentionally simple application designed for teaching and learning cartography. It lets you import your own geospatial datasets and render and combine a wide variety of maps.

Magrit: An Online Application for Thematic Cartography

The Americana is a digital map style containing concurrent, state-specific highway shields arranged along the path of road. It supports displaying shields for many countries all over the world.

OpenStreetMap Americana: A Quintessentially American Map Style

tmap is an open-source R package for drawing thematic maps. The API is based on A Layered Grammar of Graphics and resembles the syntax of ggplot2, a popular R package for drawing charts.

tmap: R Package for Thematic Maps

The cartography R package helps to create thematic maps with the visual quality of those built with a classical mapping or GIS software. Here is a cheat sheet guiding you in using cartography.

Cheat Sheet for cartography R Package

The mapsf R package helps to design various cartographic representations such as proportional symbols, choropleth or typology maps. Here is a cheat sheet guiding you in using mapsf.

Cheat Sheet for mapsf R Package

Check out these tricks for visualizing ocean depths in ArcGIS Pro. Learn how to combine blend modes, hillshade and slope raster functions, and custom color schemes to customize a bathymetry DEM.

Bathymetric Blending in ArcGIS Pro

The GeoDataViz Toolkit is a set of resources that will help you communicate your data effectively through the design of compelling visuals. Check it out here.

GeoDataViz-Toolkit: Resources, Assets and Other Useful Links for Geospatial Data Visualization

Looking for icons or other graphics for your map? Iconduck is a project to make open source icons and illustrations more accessible. Check it out here.

Iconduck: Free Open Source Icons, Illustrations, Emojis and Graphics

The Maki map icons (CC-0) from Mapbox are now converted to parameterized point markers and available to download for QGIS from the Style Hub. Take a look at the markers and all the other styles here.

Mapbox Maki Icons Now Available From QGIS Style Hub

Curious about annotations in QGIS? Check out this deep-dive workshop.