Dick Hoskins wrote:
> In my view there are 4 kinds of maps that can be made with a GIS. 1)
> publishable maps, that is, ones that will show up in print on the wall
> or in journals, reports 2) maps for use in electronic media, including
> web pages. 3) Maps to be used in Power Point presentations 4)
> analysis maps - those that use used by researchers who can deal with
> heavy visual information load and are totally familiar with everything
> that went into its construction. Each one has dramatically different
> requirements.
I think that's a big point that a lot of GIS software companies don't
really appreciate. Probably 95% of my fall into your first category
(published maps), and most of my difficulties with Maptitude arise
with issues of making things attractive.
This is especially the case when I'm making maps for large sizes.
Maptitude is useless for large sized published maps (mainly due to
lack of any WYSIWYG functionality in the editor -- 100 point text
just doesn't work in a mapper window. Conversely, symbols that can't
be made to scale when zooming don't work on E sized layouts either,
not to mention legends.
Hopefully future versions of Maptitude will allow some control over
the scalebar in the legend, will allow scaling of legend symbols
independent of map windows, will allow the addition of arbitrary
verbage, and will allow a layer to appear on the map more than once.
It would also make my life 10,000% easier if there were ways to
specify locations on layouts like in most graphical programs
(including Mapinfo), by typing measurements into boxes.
Oh, and transparency that works with Acrobat.
Bob
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