Hartdale Maps

Hartdale Maps is the cartographic practice of Margot Dale Carpenter, creating thoughtfully designed maps that make places, landscapes, and geographic stories easier to explore and understand. Its work spans physical geography, coastal environments, watersheds, trails, historical events, and regional destinations. Projects combine cartographic research and design with a range of visual approaches, including shaded relief, bathymetry, topographic data, satellite imagery, and hand-drawn illustration.

Hartdale Maps develops maps for publications, reports, visitor centers, land trusts, educational materials, and other commissioned projects. Examples include maps of Maine’s Great Marsh, the Florida Keys, the Appalachian Trail near Monson, and the Salt River on St. Croix, as well as historical maps about Hurricane Sandy and the 1889 Apia Cyclone. The practice also explores specialized techniques, from depicting potential water accumulation across the Katahdin landscape to connecting deepwater, terrestrial, wetland, and topobathymetric datasets in a single map. Through careful attention to geographic detail and visual clarity, Hartdale Maps produces work tailored to each project’s subject and format.