Nat has been writing and presenting, mostly about maps but wider subject too, for most of his professional career. Here is a list of publications and presentations:
Publications:
“Small Type, Screens and Color in a PostScript Offset Printing Environment,” Cartographic Perspectives, issue 47, (2004), pp. 81-84
“John Bachmann and the American Bird’s Eye View Print,” Imprint, vol 5 no. 2 (2008), pp. 19-35
Review of Cartographies of Travel and Navigation, in Cartographic Perspectives, issue 61 (2008), pp. 50-52
“Creating Graphically Complex Indexes With InDesign,” Cartographic Perspectives, issue 62 (2009), pp. 52-54
“Function and Beauty (In Defense of Useless Maps),” Cartographic Perspectives, issue 73 (2012), pp. 17-22
“One Warm Line,” Aeon (2013)
“I Contradict Myself,” Aeon (2013), reprinted with preferred title “In Praise of Gods That Don’t Exist” in The God Beat: What Journalism Says about Faith and Why It Matters, ed. by Costică Brădățan and Ed Simon, Broadleaf Books, 2021
Review of The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands, in Cartographic Perspectives, issue93 (2019), p. 99
Review of Beyond the Map: Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands, and Our Search for New Utopias, in Cartographic Perspectives, issue92 (2019), p. 95
Review of Food: an Atlas, in Cartographic Perspectives, issue 96 (2020), pp 85-87
Review of Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Communities and Private Estates: The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, Supplementary Series, Volume 3, in Cartographic Perspectives (2021)
co-editor with Aileen Buckley, special issue of Cartographic Perspectives on ethics in cartography, forthcoming
“Elements of Trust in Maps,“ with Timothy Prestby and Georg Gartner, Cartographic Perspectives, forthcoming
Selected Presentations:
“Geographic Imagination: John Bachmann and the American Bird’s Eye View Print,” New England American Studies Association, May 2001
“Small Type, Screens and Color in a PostScript Offset Printing Environment,” NACIS, October 2003
“Creating annotated indexes using InDesign,” NACIS, October 2005
Panel: “Making the Transition to Illustrator & Bridging the Gaps,” NACIS October 2006
“Art is a Tool: Maps as Pictures,” Association of American Geographers, 2006
“Taking Apart Cartography: Our Field as a Graphic Tradition,” NACIS, October 2007
“One-Way Arrows,” NACIS, October 2010
“On Critique,” NACIS, October 2012
“Maps for Strangers,” NACIS, October 2013
Panel: “Maps for Scholarly Publishing: Developing Standards,” NACIS, October 2017
“In Short, the Map is Useless: Cartography and Maps in Diana Wynne Jones’ Books and Stories“, Diana Wynne Jones Conference, Bristol, UK, August 2019
“Making Cartograms and Treemaps with MAPublisher,” NACIS, October 2019
“Whose map? Reframing cartography by recognizing your audiences,” MN GIS/LIS Consortium, August 2020
“Who am I making this map for?” NACIS, October 2020
“MAPublisher, MyMaps, QGIS: Building Efficient Workflows for Guidebook Maps,” Avenza User Conference, May 2022
“A multiple-constituency approach to ethics in cartography,” International Cartographic Conference, August 2023
“’Ethical Problems in Cartography‘ Revisited,“ NACIS, October 2023