Very beautiful maps Andrei. Landon
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Giuseppe Aruta <giuseppe_ar...@yahoo.it> wrote: > Hi Andrei, > your maps are very nice and well done. I hope we can find a solution for > labels in SVG. Anyhow OpenJUMP is quiet efficient. Note that you can create > shaded relif using Sextante, even if GDAL (embedded in GRASS) is more easy > and fast than sextante libraries > > Giuseppe > > 2012/11/30 Andrei Nacu <andreina...@yahoo.com> >> >> Hi, >> >> I will also share some of the maps I made with OpenJUMP and Inkscape. In >> fact, most of my college project maps in the last year were made with >> OpenJUMP and finished in Inkscape (labelling, legend). Sorry if you can't >> read the legend (it's in Romanian), but if you know some French or Italian >> you can decipher most of it. >> >> All the maps were made in OpenJUMP minus the shaded relief which was done >> in GRASS and artistically improved in the GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/). I >> also added the labels manually in Inkscape for several maps because OpneJUMP >> can't make curved labels (e.g. for rivers) and the SVG export converts text >> to paths. >> >> >> Last week OSGeo Romania had a seminar in Timisoara and I volunteered to >> make a presentation and hold an interactive 3-hour basic tutorial for >> OpenJUMP: http://earth.unibuc.ro/osgeo/timisoara2012. Because of the >> positive feed-back I received, I decided to participate with my OJ tutorials >> in every seminar held by OSGeo from now on. The next one will be in March >> 2013. I was thinking to go a little further and make a fusion tutorial with >> Inkscape next time. However, I discovered there are several minor >> shortcomings with the SVG export: >> >> 1. Topology is not preserved if the distance between 2 vertices is very >> small (below ~0.1cm) on the exported view. You might find small gaps and >> misaligned segments in the SVG file. >> 2. The scale issue. Using either the Printer or the Save View as SVG the >> resulting SVG will be ~20% smaller than its 1:1 exported view. I know you >> can rescale the drawing to 125% in Inkscape, but if you want to export >> separate layers and recompose a map you'll need to scale each SVG file. For >> this reason, it would also be nice to be able to export a full extent view >> as SVG at a custom-defined scale. >> >> Hope these suggestions will help, >> Andrei >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Landon Blake <sunburned.surve...@gmail.com> >> To: OpenJump develop and use <jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>; >> openjump-us...@googlegroups.com >> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 1:39 AM >> Subject: [openjump-users] Sewer Network Maps From OpenJUMP and Inkscape >> >> I wanted to share these two map sheets I developed using OpenJUMP and >> Inkscape. I think they show what type of cartography can be done with >> the two open source tools. >> >> Landon >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups openjump-users group. To post to this group, send email to >> openjump-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email >> to openjump-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this >> group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/openjump-users?hl=en >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: >> TUNE You got it built. Now make it sing. Tune shows you how. >> http://goparallel.sourceforge.net >> _______________________________________________ >> Jump-pilot-devel mailing list >> Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: > TUNE You got it built. Now make it sing. Tune shows you how. > http://goparallel.sourceforge.net > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: BUILD Helping you discover the best ways to construct your parallel projects. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
