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Mountain Ski Maps of North America:A Preliminary Survey and Analysis of Style

Alex Tait, International Mapping

Ellicott City, Maryland, United States

Sierra-at-Tahoe, California

Mountain Ski Maps

Survey of North American Mountain Ski Maps

Panoramic View, 86% of maps

Crested Butte, Colorado

Elevation View (Profile), 8% of maps

Spirit Mountain, Minnesota

Planimetric View, 6% of maps

Willamette Pass, Oregon

Creation Methods

Paintedtraditionalcomputer

Illustratedtraditionalcomputer

Computer renderedDEM + draped photo imageModeled elements + procedural textures

Airphoto

Painted (72%), traditional tools

Snowbird, Utah, by James Niehues

Painted, digital tools

Mt. Bachelor, Oregon, by Peter Powers

Illustrated (20%)

Steamboat, Colorado, by Gary Milliken

Air photo (6%)

Whitewater Ski Resort, British Columbia

Computer rendered (3%), DEM + draped photo

Breckenridge, Colorado

Computer rendered (3%), modeled + procedural textures

Northstar-at-Tahoe, California

Credited Artists in survey of current maps

James Niehues 112 maps (57 of top 100)Peter Powers 25Gary Milliken 8Bill Brown 4Don Moss 4Murray Hay 3K.M. Mastin 2Hal Shelton 2A. Tait 2Ron Bomba 1Hans Schmidt 1Peter Kelley 1J.C. Hetz 1Unknown/unreadable 277

The Colorado School

Example: Vail, Colorado

Jim NiehuesBill BrownHal Shelton

Hal Shelton, Mammoth Mountain

Mammoth Mountain, California

Mammoth Mountain, detail 1

Mammoth Mountain, California

Mammoth Mountain, detail 2

Mammoth Mountain, California

Bill Brown, Arizona Snowbowl

Snowbowl, Arizona

James Niehues, Whistler Blackcomb

Whistler Blackcomb, British Columbia

James Niehues, Jay Peak

Jay Peak, Vermont

Murray Hay, Apex Mountain

Apex Mountain, British Columbia

Peter Powers, Lake Louise

Lake Louis, Alberta

Future research: History

Breckenridge, Colorado

Painted, c1975 Painted, c1990 DEM + Drape, c2005

Interactive Web Maps18% of all resorts

52% of the top 100

Mont Tremblant, Québec

Alex TaitInternational Mapping

Ellicott City, Maryland, United States

alex@internationalmapping.com