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Reimagining the John Snow Cholera Map with Animation
Last week marked Esri’s annual User Conference in San Diego, and what a conference it was! It’s always fun to...
![Cartoonish Washington state map in semi-nordic style](https://www.sarahbellmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/TitleSlide-1024x576.png)
Video is up! Colored Pencil Hillshade
The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) holds a marvelous annual conference, and this year’s was in Tacoma, Washington just...
![Red River Gorge small map](https://www.sarahbellmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/twitter_NewVersion-1-e1573086039407-1024x790.png)
Adobe MAX 2019: Mapping
By the time you are reading this, my colleague John Nelson and I will have presented to a bunch of...
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A Happy Map
Making maps is fun. As a cartographer, I’m biased to feel this way. Still, when I tell people that map-making...
![Colored Pencil hand-drawn map of area in North Cascades](https://www.sarahbellmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/BlogFeat_Img.png)
Drawing Color Hillshade: A tutorial (with time lapse videos)
Last year I shared my technique for drawing hillshade with graphite (pencil). Since then, I have explored a few different...
![Sarah Bell cartographer](https://www.sarahbellmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/JTree.png)
Hello visitors
It is January 2024! I am a cartographer working at a large geospatial software company, so time for a personal...