I've been wanting to go old school & draw some maps by hand… Something like you might see on the first page of an adventure novel. I've found next to nothing on the web and am hoping that one of you has (or has seen) an ancient cartography text that describes the basics. If yes, please reply with author/title so that I can narrow my search.
[GIS] a good resource for learning to hand draw a map
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Websites:
David Rumsey Map Collection http://www.davidrumsey.com/
Map Gallery http://www.cartotalk.com/index.php?showforum=14
Ancient World Mapping Center http://www.unc.edu/awmc/mapsforstudents.html
Huge Resource - Berkeley Map Collection
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/MapCollections.html
These are good for OpenStreetMap-lovers:
The International Cartographic Association website has a section with some beautiful maps selected every month.
There are a lot of great bad examples at http://cartastrophe.wordpress.com/. For example this map of Europe (part of a world map that uses colors excessively and without obvious purpose):
Besides the coloring, the labeling on this map is a mess.
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http://www.reliefshading.com/
Here is a good website with some tips on hand drawing shaded relief maps of mountainous areas. It is worth checking out.