NB: This is a guest post by Dorothy Sanders, co-founder, CEO and designer at Maptia.
Maps have a transformative power – they are a relentless source of visual creativity, especially in the travel industry.
They are one of the most intimate forms of infographic, and arguably the earliest form of standardised information design. At a fundamental level, maps tell us about what exists in the world, what matters in it, and where we belong relative to it.