Street Plats
Historically, the cartographic style for street plats, otherwise known as "plat maps" or "subdivision maps," has evolved over time and is highly dependent on the goals and missions of the jurisdictions and planning agencies utilizing them. Most of Exc.Carto's street plats are designed around a classic "blueprint" framework with minimal coloring, sketched fonts, and an overall "handwritten" vibe, owing much inspiration to the urban plat maps of cities past. Do you wish you had your own custom-made plat of your hometown or favorite place? We can make that happen.
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South Palm Beach, FL
(2023) [NOT FOR SALE] This map was made for my dad as a gift for his birthday--a wonderful idea for a present, I must say. It's a modern interpretation of the more typical street plats of the past, incorporating sans serif fonts and accentuating the height and density of the building parcels to give the map a three-dimensional feel.
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San Marcos, TX
(2022) Inspired by an old street plat seen hanging in a restaurant bathroom in Western Montana, this map shows the main thoroughfares in downtown San Marcos, TX--home to Texas State University. Building parcels were used to separate streets, more accurately depicting street and alley widths and shapes. The goal here was to create a map from scratch that looks similar to how a North American surveyor would plot out an urban area for development, owing much of that aesthetic to the imperfect curves of the roads and rails, the sketched font families, and the classic "blueprint" color palette.
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Vinton, IA
(2023) [NOT FOR SALE] I created this unique map for my partner as a Valentine's Day gift (woah, another great gift idea!) A.K.A. "The City of Lights," the small town of Vinton, IA is home to one of AmeriCorps' regional campuses and exhibits a development pattern typical of Midwestern railroad towns. Distinctive on this map is the perceived "height" of building parcels. Doing this gave each avenue a feeling of depth that's not commonplace in street plats of the past.