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There are a number of
controls on Map Design.
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And what do we mean by controls?
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These are things that
everyone has to deal with,
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that you don't have any control over.
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Things that you have to contend
with no matter what the map is,
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or who you're making it for, or
where that map may be located.
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So, the controls on map design
are purpose, reality, available data,
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scale, audience, conditions of use,
and technical limits.
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And we'll talk about these in more or
less details.
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Some of them are pretty straightforward
and may only take one or
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two minutes to talk about.
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Some of them are a little more complicated
and require a much longer discussion.
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But I want you to be aware and
cognizant of all of these and
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think about them when
you're making your map,
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things that you need to contend with as
we go along, as you're making your maps.
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The purpose of a map is quite simply
what that map will be used for.
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It determines what will be included,
whether it's a general reference map or
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a thematic map, and
I'll talk about that more as we go along.
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And the purpose of it will
determine how that map will look.
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So, if you're making a map for tourists at
an amusement park or shoppers at a mall.
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Those maps are going to be very different
in the way the design questions and
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answers that you make or
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the decisions you make will be different
depending on what that map is for.
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If it's a scientific map that's
going in a technical report,
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it's going to have a very different style,
a look, feel to it than it would for
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something for more general audience.
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All of these things related
to the purpose of the map.
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So here's an example of a reference map.
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This is from a website
at www.algonquinmap.com.
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So this is a map of
Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario.
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And if we zoom in here,
I just love this map.
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You can use it as a web page,
you can download as a PDF,
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you can get a printed version of this map.
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And it shows an enormous amount
of information packed into
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a very small space.
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But that's what a reference map is for,
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everything should be of similar
importance, they should be represented
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visually by keeping the graphics as simple
as possible in the same visually plain.
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In another words what that means is,
that nothing jumps out too much,
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that whatever it is that you
want to focus on, you can.
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If we wanted just focus
on the water we can, so
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we have this light blue
that represents a lake.
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And we can see that the labeling for this
if we want, but it's not too prominent.
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We do have sort of a bit of hierarchy or
ordering to this.
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So some things stand out
a little bit more, like in black,
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a little more contrast.
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We have a portage store there.
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But the main thing here is that, so
this is if you haven't guessed already,
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is a map for people that are camping,
hiking, canoeing in Algonquin Park.
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And the guy that created it is
actually a former student of mine.
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He took one of my courses
many years ago and
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I certainly don't take a lot of the credit
for the talent that this guy has.
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Jeff McBuchery was the guy
that started it, but
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this was really a labor of love for him.
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He loved going to that park and
he loved collecting his own data and
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turning it into this map and
he wanted to share it with others.
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And he's done a really nice job of
packing a lot of information in so
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that there's sort of multiple themes here.
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You've got water, canoe routes,
camp sites, place names,
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all kinds of things in here,
historical information about former towns,
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that's all packed into this reference map.
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And it's similar if you have,
say, a driving map or
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a topographic map if
you've used those before.
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So the purpose of this map
is really multipurpose.
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You are giving it to a lot of people and
saying,
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I'm not sure what you're
going to use it for.
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Maybe you need to find a campground,
maybe you are going canoeing,
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maybe it's some other thing,
you're driving through the area.
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So, all of that information is on there,
all of those themes are there,
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but it's multipurpose.
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It's kind of like thinking of it
like an encyclopedia of information.
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When you have an encyclopedia, if you
think of the old printed versions of
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those, these bound volumes,
they were created because there's a lot of
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information that people
may want to access to.
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And it's created because they're not sure
what you're going to want it for, so
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here's a whole bunch of
information in case you need it.
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That's what a reference map is for.
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And that relates to the purpose
as a control on map design.
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Here's another reference map.
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This is created by natural resources
Canada as a government agency which is
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a topographic map that's part of a larger
series for the entire country of Canada,
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and they've done the same thing here.
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As a reference map they've packed in
an enormous amount of information
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on things like buildings, and roads, and
islands, and water bodies, and parks.
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They even have contour lines in here.
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There's shading to represent
residential areas.
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You get the idea.
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Again, there's a lot of
information on here, and
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it's put in a way that's efficient and
yet elegant.
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And you may take these for granted.
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It's easy to just sort of look at it and
say, well,
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I just need to know where I'm going or
whatever.
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But it took an enormous amount of time
to develop the symbology for this and
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the placement of all of these things,
it would have been hours,
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hundreds of hours probably, for
these maps to put these together.
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So I do appreciate a really
good reference map.
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A different purpose for
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a map is a thematic map, and with
a thematic map, there's one theme to it.
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So if you think of an encyclopedia
as being a collection of a whole
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bunch of facts,
a thematic map is more like a turn paper,
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that your write on a particular subject.
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So a thematic map has one subject or
theme, it's often the answer to a specific
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question, so here it's relating to
mean annual temperatures in Canada.
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And we have this color scheme here, from
cool colors to warm colors, and what do
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you know [LAUGH] it's cool in the north
and then it gets warmer as you go south.
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And with a map like this
it's not a reference map,
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it's not meant to be used for any other
purpose than to understand the pattern of
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this one variable which is
mean annual temperature.
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And this has been done in a way that
it's easy to see, the pattern that
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there is a gradation from one area to
another that it's easy to interpret.
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And that it's cold colors like
blue are associated with cold and
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warm colors are associated with warm.
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And since this is temperature, hey, that
seems like a good color scheme to use.
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So, this is a thematic map,
so a very different purpose.
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And often the maps that we're going to
make using a GIS are more thematic maps.
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Reference maps are a little less common,
not to say you couldn't make one, but
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they're less common.
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Typically, what we're doing is trying
to answer a research question or
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an analysis question of some kind.
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We want to know the answer to something,
and that map is showing us that answer.
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So where are all the people that shop
at a particular grocery store, or
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whatever it happens to be.
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And so the map that you create to answer
that question will be a thematic map, so
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that's a different purpose
than a reference map.
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And the design decisions that
are made will be different for
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that map than they would be for
a reference map.
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The funny thing is there's
not necessarily a hard and
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fast rule about what's a reference
map versus thematic map.
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Sometimes there's a blurring
of the lines between the two.
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But this map here,
this is a base map from RGS Online,
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similar to like
a Google Maps kind of thing.
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It looks like a reference map
when you first look at it.
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And that's really what it is, is there's
information on roads and neighborhoods,
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that kind of thing.
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But what if I do this?
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Now, I've added the locations of
bike stores, bike shops in Toronto.
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Now, it's a thematic map.
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In other words, I'm saying to somebody
if I was to make this map and
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distribute it to say if you want to
know where bike shops are in Toronto,
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here's a map that answers that question.
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So, yes and of course it still has
the elements of a reference map.
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And those are often important in a
thematic map is you want to provide enough
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geographic context so
someone knows where those are.
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If all you had were the symbols of
the bike shops and nothing else,
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could be useless.
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You have to have something
that tells people,
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well where is this shop in relation to the
road network or downtown, or the lake or
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whatever it is that they might
think is useful for them to
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refer to as some kind of background
information related to that theme.
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Here's the same bike shop data
using a different base map.
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This is another base map in RGS Online.
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That is purposely created so that it
is a good backdrop for a thematic map.
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So here they've kind of I think of
it as like washing out the colors.
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They've made it this really light gray.
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There's not a lot of background
information on there, and
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that's intentional because the idea is for
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the base map to sort of
fade into the background.
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And the subject of your map, the theme
should be more in the foreground or
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should be more obvious to people.
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And so the same data, less reference
information than the previous version.
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And I think in the end it actually
makes it a better thematic map,
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because people can still see relatively
where those things are in the city.
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But the reference data
is not as distracting.
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There are lots of different
base maps available.
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The one that I'm using here
is called light grey canvas.
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The one I was using
previously was topographic.
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So depending on what you're using the map
for you might pick one of the others,
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some other ones.
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But the light gray canvas is one
that you might start with as it's
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a really good base map to be able
to put thematic map data over.
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Here's a dark version of that gray map,
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I think it actually well I
have kind of two minds here.
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One is that I think that the contrast is
good since the symbols are yellow and
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the background is this really dark gray,
the symbols become really obvious.
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There's a good pop to them,
you're really seeing where they are but
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I think it's a little too dramatic and
it kind of looks like something out of a,
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I don't know, a spy movie or something.
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If that's the look you're going for,
great.
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My personal taste is maybe it's
a little too dark, but it could work.16462
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