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
“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