Vetiver is a clean, fresh map style emphasizing tasteful textures, natural building shadows and the soft, warm glow of the sun.
It was originally designed as a campus map of the Pennsylvania State University for the BDSS homepage.
- Adjust street styles to add a recessed appearance
Give water a soft texture, north-west bevel- Set type in a more distinct typeface + tweak street label repetitions
- Standardize appearance across scale
- Broaden use for general, large scale reference mapping
This work was supported by Pennsylvania State University and the National Science Foundation under an IGERT award #DGE-1144860, Big Data Social Science.