{"id":1788046,"date":"2019-11-08T08:40:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788046"},"modified":"2019-11-08T08:40:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:40:14","slug":"some-obsolete-mapmaking-processes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/11\/some-obsolete-mapmaking-processes\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Obsolete Mapmaking Processes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cartographic services firm Lovell Johns posted this on their blog last April: 5 production processes in map making that are no longer in use<\/a>. Includes such diverse elements as scribing, waxed type and rotring pens. Darkrooms! [Kenneth Field<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cartographic services firm Lovell Johns posted this on their blog last April: 5 production processes in map making that are no longer in use. Includes such diverse elements as scribing, waxed type and rotring pens.… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[312,284],"class_list":["post-1788046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-cartography","tag-history-of-cartography","tag-mapmaking","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787849,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/10\/cartography-the-ideal-and-its-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788046,"position":0},"title":"Cartography: The Ideal and Its History","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 October 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Matthew H. 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