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Hal Shelton Revisited: Designing and Producing Natural-Color Maps with Satellite Land Cover Data
2004
Cartographic Perspectives
This paper examines natural-color maps by focusing on the painted map art of Hal Shelton, the person most closely associated with developing the genre during the mid twentieth century. Advocating greater use of natural-color maps by contemporary cartographers, we discuss the advantages of natural-color maps compared to physical maps made with hypsometric tints; why natural-color maps, although admired, have remained comparatively rare; and the inadequacies of using satellite images as
doi:10.14714/cp47.470
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