Map Critique 10

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Critique:

The map is intended to highlight Guagua,Pampanga as the origin of a certain establishment. Without that, this map can be a very good map for the whole province of Pampanga. Because it has a artistically-written title, a very nice compass rose and a very concise legend. The map also showed the details of the cartographer itself and other important details with regards to copyright. What the cartographer simply forgot was to put a map scale in the map.

The choice of color is very outstanding because it gave a vintage appeal to certain map readers. And the font used in the map also gave me an impression of vintage artistry, but what is technically important is that the cartographer used bigger fonts for the cities and smaller fonts for the towns.

The map is somehow multi-purpose in nature because it did not only highlighted the location of different cities and towns in Pampanga but it also highlighted the main roads in the area which facilitates transport in the province. The map also showed the different attractions in Pampanga such as the Mt. Arayat and the Candaba Wild Birds Sanctuary.

The map is a very good example of map which does not sacrifices both quality and artistry. The map gave the necessary information needed for the readers to easily grasp and understand the contents of the map. This work showed that accurate information relay from the sender to the receiver can work without sacrificing the overall aesthetic value of the map.