Hi Andrei,
Fantastic! Your maps are truly inspiring. Thanks for sharing your work.
Inkscape is a wonderful tool. It also has unequaled capabilities to edit
PDF. In my limited experience using it, PDF import seems to have a higher
fidelity translator than SVG. Have you tried it? Text comes in as text.
regards,
Larry Becker
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Andrei Nacu <andreina...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to share my latest maps made with Open JUMP.
> They can also be found on Wikimedia Commons.
>
> A general map of the Roman Empire in AD 125, with physical background:
> Full size
> map<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Roman_Empire_125.png>
> link address <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_Empire_125.png>
>
> And the political version:
> Full size
> map<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Roman_Empire_125_political_map.png>
> link
> address<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_Empire_125_political_map.png>
>
>
> Regarding the creation of the maps, I find Open JUMP to be the most
> vector-friendly open source GIS software. The preparation of the datasets
> (rivers, lakes, sea, roads, borders) was really piece of cake, especially
> after the 2 bugs regarding 'Merge features' and the fill closed area tool
> were solved. The offset curve command was very useful for making
> administrative boundaries parallel with water courses. I'm also thankful
> that Geoffrey Roy has added a scaling option for Printer svg outputs.
> There's no need for any further rescaling in Inkscape now.
>
> Of course the maps were not entirely made with Open JUMP. The shaded
> relief was made in GRASS and improved in GIMP, since Sextante-shaded relief
> is not as powerful (and you can only use it for ASCII files, and not for
> DEM's). And the legend and curved labels were made in Inkscape. Actually, I
> chose to write all the labels in Inkscape, since text is transformed to
> paths when the map is exported from Open JUMP. Because of this, no further
> text edits (like making curved labels, changing size and fonts) can be made.
>
> Overall, I'm satisfied with the latest version of Open JUMP. Of course,
> there are some minor style options which could be added (like more px steps
> for line widths; e.g. 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2 and so on). And a curved labels option
> would be nice as well. But I'm not sure if these are really needed. OJ is
> more focused on elegant vector editing and analysis, not on map layouts. If
> I remember, even ArcGIS10 made clumsy curved labels, so in the end you
> always have to use a vector graphics editor to polish your maps.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
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