Exercise - Style a Map

Optional Exercise

Find maps or other images that inspire you

Create a moodboard. Some sources could be:

• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
• OldMapsOnline

  Create Color Palette inspired by the colors you saw

Here are some tools that could help

• Colorpicker for data | tristen
• chroma.js palette helper
• ColorBrewer: Color Advice for Maps
• Coolors - The super fast color palettes generator!

Create a map of an area you know or want to visit

This blog post outlines the steps for creating a custom map with Mapbox.

5 steps for creating a custom map - Mapbox

You could also use one of the styles in the Mapbox Gallery as a starting point.

Submission format

Take a PDF print of the map using the Export feature in Mapbox and upload it to the Google Drive folder.