Cartographer
Version 1.51
18 March 2017
David R. Maddison and Wayne P. Maddison

Cartographer: A Mesquite package for plotting geographic data

The Cartographer package allows one to plot the geographic location of taxa onto a calibrated map. It can either plot taxa separately in a taxa window, as shown here:

Base map from Snyder, 1987

or on a tree in a tree window, as shown here:

Image of North America courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

Cartographer requires Mesquite 3.2 or later.

The following sections are available in this manual to help you use Cartographer:

• Getting Started
  Installation of Cartographer, and a list of the basic steps you need to produce a map in Cartographer
• Sources of Maps
  Some suggestions for sources of the map you will use as your background image.
• Projections
  An overview of the different sorts of map projections (e.g., Transverse Mercator, Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area) available in cartographer
• Calibration & Parameters
  How to calibrate you map so that it displays locations correctly.
• Adding data
  Entering latitude and longitude data in Mesquite's data editor, or using the Add Taxon Tool, or by importing an XML file containing the data.
• Ancestral locations
  How Cartographer calculates the location of ancestral nodes on a tree.
• Taxon symbol & groups
  Changing the shape, size, and color of the symbols used for taxon "dots".
• Tools
  An overview of the various tools available for examining or altering your map in the taxa or tree window.
• Display Options
  Adjusting the display of the map, including adding a longitude/latitude grid and dimming the map image.
• Graphics Files
  How to save your image as an editable graphics file.
• Citing Cartographer
  How to cite Cartographer.
• Download Cartographer
  The page from which you can download Cartographer.
• Cartographer Source Code
  Download the source code of Cartographer.