Making maps that work

BEFORE

AFTER

A good map is what? As clean and simple as possible. No extraneous information, just to the point.

These maps are from a presentation about agriculture in western Canada. So we don’t really need to show Texas, do we? A map at the proper scale – in this case of four provinces – and we’re ready to go. Clean and simple, easy to understand. As long as you know that “ha” is an abbreviation for hectares.