[rmc]

It's a dying art in a sense, however it's never been easier to produce your own map now, with all the neography tools and open data.

[tptacek]

In the sense that a map like this is the product of decades of full-time cartography experience, experience which is inevitably going to get less and less available as more and more of the work is automated, it seems fair to be concerned that the art is endangered.