Aaron Taveras: “I would stare at topos for days on end and thought it’d be fun to make them myself.”

Very Expensive Maps

Reno cartographer and outdoorsman Aaron Taveras on why he started making his own trail maps, “taking [his] sweet time” to create a hyper-detailed monochrome 4x5’ map of Nevada landforms, beginning a map with the raster data, an inspiring backcountry ski atlas, teaching cartography by disassembling National Park maps, and the beauty of low-amenity public lands. See Aaron’s maps at cartografix.co

• Kalmiopsis Wilderness trail map
• Grand Teton map
• “Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.”
• Taveras’ 2012 Humboldt Bay map
• My 2014 Bay Area map
• My 2015 Kiribati map
• Taveras’ 2016 Kiribati map
• Eduard shaded relief generator
• Avenza MAPublisher
• Avenza Geographic Imager
• Natural Scene Designer
• QGIS
• ESRI ArcGIS Pro
• U.S. Forest Service GIS data clearinghouse
• U.S. Geological Survey: The National Map
• National Land Cover Dataset
• National Park Service’s Adobe Illustrator files
• Bernhard Jenny
• Alex McPhee (see ep. 6)
• Tom Patterson
• Eduard Imhof
• Mike Hall (see ep. 3)
• Joost Grootens
• Geodetic Institute of Slovenia
• Raven Maps & Images
• Helvetic Backcountry Atlas
• NACIS conference

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