Traditional Map Design vs. Info Graphics: Motivating Students to Reveal their Talents

A student assignment within the concluding module on map compilation is taken to elaborate on the difference between maps (cartography) and info graphics (information design). By describing the task and approach, the various skills adding to the outcomes — a more traditional newspaper map and an appealing info graphics each for up to now 47 distinct topics — are demonstrated and discussed. This is meant to highlight the still existing need of important original carto-graphic skills in the otherwise rather IT-focused training of nowadays.