This lovely map of the earth’s biomes is part of the Maps for Kids poster series by R J Andrews and Robert Simmon.
In this blog post, Andrews discusses the process of making this poster from the inspiration of an Erwin Raisz atlas to the full production details. There’s even a flow chart showing the steps, software, and file formats used. While the above image is not very high resolution he provides this nice detailed image.
The authors do a great job making distinguishable colors from a limited green to brown palette. I also love how the legend uses temperature and humidity symbols to indicate each biome’s characteristics.
They also did a very nice job of giving life to the oceans with a low contrast bathymetry gradient. The original Raisz atlas only had two globes. This made Antarctica, New Zealand and much of Australia invisible so they added a third one to complete the picture*. I also like how they rotated the final three globes a bit to avoid them looking like “Mickey Mouse ears”.
*though if you’re Senegalese, you might not feel well represented.
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