Scalar Mapping

We worked with Victoria’s Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) on a series of maps at three scales: Australia, Victoria and metropolitan Melbourne. The maps support the department’s education, digital and print material, so they had to read clearly for a wide public audience.

Each map shares the same colour system, simplified graphics and typography, so a reader can move between scales without relearning the key. We kept the detail to what each scale needed and left out anything that would slow down a first read.

The finished set gives DELWP a consistent base for explaining public land, environmental management and urban and regional planning to people with very different levels of background knowledge.

• Visualisation
• Infographics
• Graphic Design
• Educational & Informational Media

• Australian Hydrographic Office — Topographic Data
• DELWP Meta Share — Topographic Data
• Tuomas Kankola — Earth Topographic Data