MAPPING IN THE CLOUDS

Sometimes it feels like being a cartographer is like playing god.  A change of the terrain colour here, an insertation of a road there - its all very much like the first few paragraphs of the bible.  But we're not truely gods however, we do have our off days - sometimes we get mappers block and cant decide on an appropriate colour scheme for a map.  Fortunately for us we can turn to cloudmade.com who offer the ability to try out a few complex colour schemes at the click of a button. [It may appear confusing at first, but all you need to do is click maps (in the upper left corner), zoom to an area of interest, then click change style (upper right) to try out some cool  palettes]