 |
||||
 |
Home | Annual Meeting | Community | Join NACIS | Cartographic Perspectives |
|
||
 |
||||
 |
||||
|
|
|
|
|
 |
||||
|
Custom Cartography Companies A listing follows of NACIS members with commercial ventures that specialize in producing maps for clients. They welcome contacts from people who would like to contract with them to make maps. See the NACIS list of University Cartography Laboratories for additional listings. Cartographers are listed in the order received. NACIS members who would like to update, add, or remove their custom cartography listings may contact Tanya Buckingham, tbuckingham@wisc.edu If you would like to be added to our list and are not yet a member of the North American Cartographic Information Society, we heartily invite you to join us. Please see membership information here.
Allan Cartography Inc. has been building outstanding, award-winning maps for over 30 years. We are a small company, located in beautiful southern Oregon. Our staff of cartographers take pride in their credentials, skills, and the fact that they work for Stuart Allan, the cartographer recommended by National Geographic to appear in the book, The Virtuoso, by Ken Carbone. We are perhaps known best for our Raven maps and Benchmark Road and Recreation atlases of western states. We also build maps for a number of government agencies, energy companies, and a diverse client list which includes architects, city planners, book publishers, 3D model makers, and--a fine compliment--other cartographers.  Martin von Wyss vW Maps, Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts, specializes in map design for print, animated and interactive products for television, web pages and CD-ROM products. Daan Strebe Mapthematics: Map projection design and consultation; small-scale base maps on exotic or custom projections; transforming maps from one projection to another. Robert Woolley Blue Planet Graphics was founded by Robert Woolley, Project Manager for 17 years with MapQuest Publishing. Providing the highest quality street and locator maps for Directory Publishers, Travel Publishers, and Chambers of Commerce.
Chicago CartoGraphics is a design firm specializing in well-designed maps for publication; clients range from book publishers to real estate developers to transit agencies.
International Mapping Associates provides custom mapmaking services for print and electronic publishing. We have complete research, design and production capabilities to create maps and information graphics for travel guides, textbooks, atlases, magazines, CD-ROMs, web sites, and other media.
Cartographic Consultants provides geographic research, map compilation and design specializing in map editing for the educational market. We have an extensive library of reference sources and experience with publishers in designing curriculum materials and providing editorial direction.
Pacific Mapping offers general map design and production; specializing in terrain representation for visualization of landscapes for hiking, skiing, and other illustrative purposes. Ev has an extensive portfolio in research illustration and policy atlas work, and broad field experience in GPS, primary data collection, revision work, and data verification. Sample work available electronically.
Mapping Specialists is a company built on honesty, professionalism, efficiency, trust, cooperation, and experience. We provide quality cartographic services and products in a profitable, customer-oriented manner. For over twenty years, we have been specializing in thematic and street mapping for a wide variety of clients. We also offer print on demand large-format plotter services and laminating. The last several years have seen the evolution of our own map product lines. We produce and distribute the most accurate local road atlases and wall maps. In addition, MSL's very unique 3-D Lake Maps® give our retail customers a view of what is hidden below the surface of over 150 water bodies in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
I have decided to stop and listen directly to the place. Direct-Contact maps in performance & editions, printed using matrix of lithography, relief, silk screen, digital and monoprinting by mapmaker and human creative Steven R Holloway. Must a map always be a map?
Michael Scisco BioGeoCreations offers comprehensive and affordable mapping services to the not-for-profit and small business communities. We understand that running an efficient and successful organization requires frugality, creativity, flexibility, and reliable resources. We can help tell your story in an effective, accurate, and proficient manner. Our specialties include natural resource mapping and GIS conservation design services. If you can imagine it, we can map it!
Specializing in information and mapping support for public interest organizations, GreenInfo Network is a non-profit founded in 1996. We work primarily in GIS on projects ranging from child care supply and demand to ecoregional planning, and usually have 20-40 projects active at any one time. While we have broad capabilities in GIS and database development and analysis, we are most known for our compelling visual style and our emphasis on thoroughly understanding a client's communication needs up front. Our technical platform is mostly ESRI ArcGIS, supplemented by a variety of illustration software as needed. We also have the capacity to prepare and publish mapping that takes advantage of new web-based tools. Each of our maps is a unique product and we take the time to ensure that it reflects a compatible image of our client, as well as being a highly effective piece of graphic and cartographic design. We welcome inquiries from non-profits, public agencies, universities and from private companies working on public interest project.
Jim Blakeslee (President) Geocentric is a specialty software and services company that creates custom maps and interactive map applications. We specialize in database driven, web based maps and localized search results for destination marketing and tourism. However, we also perform traditional GIS and Cartography work, such as GIS analysis and map design, for a wide variety of purposes.
Michael James Hermann Michael James Hermann is an award winning cartographic designer. He has a broad range of experience with recreational maps, street maps, campus maps, signage and wayfinding, interpretive media, information design, environmental design, maps and graphics for books and journals, atlas design, historical and educational cartography for private and non-profit organizations. He has worked as a cartographer, publisher, editor, designer, writer and photographer. Michael is the senior cartographer for the University of Maine Canadian-American Center (part-time) and works (the rest of the time) as a consultant and freelance designer. He self-publishes maps of Central Pennsylvania for the retail market and creates custom cartography for clients nationwide. Purple Lizard was founded by Mike Hermann in 1997.
XNR Productions specializes in producing custom maps for publishers of textbooks, travel guides, reference materials, CD-ROMs, and internet applications. We offer a full range of services in cartography and illustration, including research/compilation, design, production, and editing. Larry Bowring Bowring Cartographic has provided custom map design services for the publishing industry, business community, and government since 1976. Products include thematic maps and locator maps for print, web-optimized maps, museum exhibit graphics, and wayfinding systems, at scales ranging from local to international.
Bryan Conant Maps.com has been a leading provider of mapping products and solutions for business, education, and consumer markets since 1991. We specialize in creating accurate, aesthetically pleasing street maps, travel maps, and textbook maps for a variety of clients and agencies. While our focus is on these map genres we are capable of creating just about any style or scope of cartographic project. In addition to custom cartography, Maps.com also offers services such as Classified Concepts (www.ClassifiedConcepts.com) and Maps101 (www.Maps101.com). Our company of 35 employees is located 10 miles west of picturesque Santa Barbara, CA if you happen to be in the neighborhood please feel free to stop by and pay us a visit.
Map Resources provides the world's largest collection of fully editable maps (globes, continents, states, cities) for design professionals. Files are available online or on CD.
Cartographer-Online specializes in maps and graphics for scholarly publications, tourism, general interest, and the
Hedberg Maps, Inc is primarily a map publisher with over 60 titles in its catalog, but we also produce custom mapping for a variety of clients. Our specialties include large-scale mapping of campuses and downtowns, graphically sophisticated specialty mapping, and unusual compilations of data and imagery for the general public. We are always looking for new challenges.
Geographic Techniques specializes in quality digital cartography, information graphics, custom mapping, and geographical research. Some of the services include maps and graphics for Web applications, posters, reports and presentations, GIS applications, as well as climatological, environmental, and locational research.
Adventure Cycling Association's mission is to inspire people to travel by bicycle. One of the ways we do this is to produce route maps for both road bike and mountain bike touring. The Routes and Mapping Department has published over 25,000 miles of mapped routes and is continually adding to and updating our National Bicycle Route Network. We also design and produce bicycling-related custom maps for government agencies, organizations and events.
General Cartography Inc. (GCI) is a widely recognized map resource company, designing and producing maps and charts for print and electronic publication since 1968. Experienced in working closely with demanding authors and editors, and in meeting deadlines with quality work, GCI has produced maps and charts for such authors as Peter Mathesion, Walter Lord, Leon Uris, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Bill Bradley, James Clavell, and Tom Wicker. GCI maps are on permanent display at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. and other exhibits around the world. Paul Pugliese, President of GCI, was Chief Cartographer at Time Magazine for over twenty years. During this time he created over two thousand maps that appeared in Time Magazine and other Time publications. We specialize in providing maps and informational graphics at the highest level of accuracy and attention to detail with over thirty years experience in book, newspaper and magazine publishing.
Originally founded in 2000 under the name tonnhaus design, mapformation is a firm of ten designers which specializes in the development of city/area maps, campus maps and floor diagrams for use in print, signage and the World Wide Web. Colleges and universities are our primary clients, although we regularly complete projects for a variety of for-profit and non-profit organizations. We also develop maps in vector, raster, hand-rendered and 360-degree/interactive formats. A member of NACIS since 2002, mapformation welcomes inquiries from prospective clients, as well as other design cartography firms looking for opportunities to partner on a variety of endeavors.
Louis (Lou) Cross, Creative Director
Martin Gamache The Alpine Mapping Guild is a custom cartography company dedicated to producing quality maps to exacting standards. We publish our own topographic maps to various mountain ranges of the world as well a offering our map design expertise to clients. We have eperience in a wide variety of mapping from star and zoning atlases, to road and promotional maps.
Topaz Maps draws on many years of experience and custom cartographic tools to cover a broad range of map styles and scales, from color or black and white illustrations for books, guides and scientific publications, to geographic data processing, GIS, and cartographic database design. Topaz Maps Inc. is also a publisher of detailed recreation maps, including the Topaz Outdoor Travel series.
bk designs is an independent consultancy specializing in the design and production of custom maps and graphics displaying complex spatial data. We are geographers and cartographers skilled in the full range of modern visualization technologies that emphasize precision, clarity and intuition. Our success is based in equal parts on these skills and the careful attention we give to our clients problems and objectives. Our energy, flexibility and focus allows us to provide timely and cost effective problem solutions.
Red Geographics operates in the fields of GIS (Geographic Information Systems), geographical data, Spatial ETL, 3D visualisation and digital cartography, offering consultancy and training, performing data translation and transformation services as well as creating both 2D and 3D maps and visualisations. Our goal is to help our clients optimize the way they work with geographical data and information, thereby increasing gains from using this information. In addition to these services, we are also a distributor of several software products aimed at the GIS/Cartography market, such as FME, MAPublisher and Visual Nature Studio.
Nordpil specializes in first class custom map design, visual communication in the form of charts and diagrams and services in GIS and geoinformatics. We draw from expertise in working with global to local data and information, and have experience in research and working with scientific data sources. Additional services include training in visual communication and map design.
I have been creating hand-painted illustrated maps for over thirty years. Among my clients are National Geographic, The New Yorker, Smithsonian, Audubon, Harpers, Outside Magazine. Please visit my website to see samples of my maps and illustrations.
Erin Greb Cartography, based in Philadelphia, specializes in designing custom maps for print and the web. Clients include book publishers, parks and recreation departments, magazines, and universities.
The staff at Toolbox Inc. has been creating custom maps for local government and commercial real estate since 1993. We have nearly every street and building in the Chicago Central Business District at our fingertips. If you need a map from scratch for presentation purposes... we're the ones to make it. We also have a huge database of stock maps that can be customized for your every need. Clients include Cushman & Wakefield, CB Richard Ellis, The City of Chicago, Colliers, Bennett & Kahnweiler, J.F. McKinney & Associates, Parkway Properties, Eastdil Secured, Golub, Grubb & Ellis, Jones Lang LaSalle, The Prime Group, Hines and Holliday Fenoglio Fowler to name a few.
SouthEast Cartography specializes in the design and production of custom high-quality maps for print and/or digital media using the latest graphics software and GIS tools available. Clients include book publishers, real estate companies, transit agencies, chambers of commerce, organizations, and individuals.
|
|
Also in this section:
Other Map Sites: Cartographic Users Advisory Council (CUAC)
Find Cartography Jobs on Monster.com
|
|
 |
||||
|
©2001-2005, North American Cartographic Information Society Address: AGS Library, PO Box 399, Milwaukee, WI 53201 Phone: (414) 229-6282, FAX: (414) 229-3624, E-Mail: business@nacis.org Report problems to webmaster@nacis.org |
||||
