About demap

Damien Demaj is a freelance cartographer and cartographic design consultant. His creativity and vision are the driving force behind demap, his cartographic design company.



Damien graduated from RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Geomatics (Cartography/GIS) and has been actively involved in cartographic publishing for the past 12 years.

He began his career as a cartographer for Explore Australia Publishing (Penguin), specializing in cartographic design, travel and road atlas production for 4 years. Damien’s time at Penguin also saw him producing the cartography for the official maps of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Subsequently he served as a GIS technician at MWH (Montgomery Watson Harza), one of Melbourne’s leading storm water and waste water infrastructure data capture companies.

After 12 months at MWH Damien took on the role of cartographic project leader for publishers DK (Dorling Kindersley) in London where he managed and produced the cartography for the Prentice Hall secondary school geography textbooks, World Studies. He was also the assistant cartographic editor on the DK World Student Atlas.

Damien then established demap, his own cartographic design company. He has recently held the position of Chief Cartographer for the Macmillan Primary Atlas, the limited edition Earth Blue atlas (RRP $7,000) and the Telegram World Map Project. He has also self-published a number of city maps in his home state of Victoria.

In November of 2010 Damien joined Esri (www.esri.com) in California. He works as an Online Cartographic Product Engineer on the ArcGIS.com Content Team where he builds and designs multi-scale web maps using commercial and GIS community data.

Testimonials

Earth has been a massive task for Millennium House, we would have been concerned we couldn't make it happen if it wasn’t for the great mapping and advice provided by Damien.
Gordon Cheers, Managing Director
Millennium House

Damien is well organised and conscientious with a excellent understanding of the commercial needs of map making. He was a valued team member while working at DK and has continued to provide freelance cartographic services from single, one off, maps through to contributing on major projects.
David Roberts, Managing Cartographer
Dorling Kindersley

demap has provided the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) with high quality customised maps for our publications for a number of years now. The maps provided match well with our own high production standards. The timeliness of delivery and the accompanying customer service is greatly appreciated by us.
Janice Johnson, Research & Information Manager
ASPI

Damien Demaj has coordinated a number of projects for Lonely Planet since 2004. His organisational skills, knowledge of various software applications and ability to grasp our very specific workflow and mapping style have always resulted in completing these projects on time and with a high degree of quality.
Adrian Persoglia, Managing Cartographer
Lonely Planet Publications Australia