Since somebody brought it up...mapublisher is a great tool-plugin for illustrator that reads spatial data in many formats. Around $900 so not free (or open). I've found it to be the cleanest way of getting data onto ink.
Ian White :: Urban Mapping, Inc 690 Fifth Street Suite 200 :: San Francisco CA 94107 T 415.946.8170 :: F 866.385.8266 -----Original Message----- From: Richard Fairhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:44:27 To:[email protected] Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Producing printed maps? Nick Black wrote: > A very biased reply, but consider the tools that have been developed as part > of the OpenStreetMap project: > > Osmarender is a rule based render that produces very nice looking SVGs from > OSM format XML. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmarender Yes, I'd second that. Osmarender is stupidly impressive and the one part of OSM that's currently producing n00b-friendly output. Like zillions of other freelance cartographers, I use Adobe Illustrator (commercial closed-source, Win/Mac only) to draw printed maps. The old (pre-AI9) file format is a very simple text format, essentially an abbreviated form of PostScript, so it's the work of minutes to write a bit of Perl to mung whatever format you like - GPX, say - into .ai. You can then style it to your heart's content. Getting raw data from a GIS and then styling it in Illustrator is probably the single most common workflow for one-off printed maps done by professional cartographers. (I'm semi-pro so don't quite count. :) ) Theoretically, I guess, Inkscape should do much of the same, though I've never found it as easy to get on with as Illustrator. cheers Richard _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
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