Comments on: Cartominutiae: Combined Symbols on Maps http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=2670 Blogging at KelsoCartography.com Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Nathaniel http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=2670&cpage=1#comment-19426 Nathaniel Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:04:20 +0000 http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=2670#comment-19426 @ Steven: As you point out, the emoticons (smiley faces) are meant to indicate the suitability of one of the shown graphic alternatives over another. The term “Combined Symbols” refers to how individual symbol stylizations can be optimized to respect the other style instances in close proximity. With the case of the railroad ties, aligning the two to prevent uneven gaps. I’m sure there’s a better native-speaker English term for this (the term comes from translated Japanese from the volume John references).

]]> By: Steven Hoober http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=2670&cpage=1#comment-19418 Steven Hoober Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:43:40 +0000 http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=2670#comment-19418 These don’t strike me as carto-symbols, as much as general graphic marks, used for a style guide that just happens to be about cartography.

Though I have always used smiley (and neutral, and sad, and hair-on-fire) faces when taking notes and marking up employee’s drawings for review. It’s a great and (within our culture at least) universal symbol.

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