Illustrator has a plugin that can import, export and help annotate and
draw GIS data: MAPublisher, by Avenza. A bit pricy, but if
Illustrator is required, that will do it. I use it a lot with exported
GRASS (and, er, other) rasters and vectors (geotiff and shapefile).
On Nov 8, 2007, at 9:24 AM, WolfgangZ wrote:
Hi all,
this is slightly off topic, but at least Grass should be used to
create the base data for maps.
We want to create a map of a part of a mountain. It will consist of
several layers (DOP, height lines, polygon lines, coordinate
grid, ...). I've never done something like this and I hope that I
can get some reccomendations regarding the work flow and suitable
software to use.
One big problem is that one of my friends prefers to use Adobe
Illustrator to create one of these layers, but as far as I know
Illustrator can't handle anything else as paper units and therefore
all georeferenciation is lost. The advantage of Illustrator would be
that it is easy to colorize (or fill) areas and create nice looking
plots.
An other task is to create (a kind of) atlas where parts of the big
map fits on single A4 sheets. Are there any possibilities to cut out
parts of a big map and automatically create a grid (with numbers at
the border)?
I had a short look at gmt, but I find it quite cryptic to use.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Regards
Wolfgang
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