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And of course most software is difficult to use if you are unfamiliar with it. In fact GIS produced maps are often much less precise when printed due to the poor line rendering available in ArcGIS.Īdobe Illustrator: “Not accurate if you move things around”, same can be said for Arc if you edit and move features around unintentionally. Perhaps you meant that it’s capable of very high precision? Although here I don’t think it’s any more precise than Illustrator can be if care is taken to reference your workspace and draw at a large scale. It’s the data that are accurate or inaccurate, and to be honest most GIS data I encounter on a daily basis are much less accurate than what I would have digitized by hand in Illustrator in my AAA road map days. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0.īoth comments and pings are currently closed.ĪrcGIS: I know you know this, but to equate the software package with overall accuracy is a bit of a fallacy IMO. This entry was posted on April 18, 2012, 10:46 am and is filed under Workflow. I’m keeping my eye on Kartograph too.Īdd your likes and dislikes in the comments. There are other options, this list is certainly not exhaustive and is entirely focused on print mapping rather than dynamic, digital mapping, for which there are a lot of open source tools out there.

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Worth checking out at any rate, if you are new or want a change, or need something cheaper.Įtc = QGIS is easy and free and has some okay carto-qualities. Can’t say much about these software products except that some people seem to really like them.

Has Manifold had a recent release? As of a few months ago it hadn’t. Global Mapper, Manifold, Freehand = Some people use these products to produce maps. If everything you’ve got is in raster maybe Photoshop would be better for you. Illustrator now has a lot of the Photoshop features so if you’re new, you might just head straight to Illustrator, which is better for print, typography and whatnot since it has vector capabilities. Photoshop = You could export from ArcGIS to Photoshop to do some final styling, and folks who are very experienced with Photoshop (but maybe not with Illustrator) will go this route.

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For professional cartographers who do non-scientific style maps like tourist maps and the like, MAPublisher and Illustrator might just be the best bet. MAPublisher = Get smooth, rich Illustrator outputs but with added ability to preserve accuracy via projections, edit features and tables while maintaining spatial integrity (i.e., edit your GIS data). For example, you have to use a special button for selecting the artboard in order to move it, not the regular select buttons. This software is difficult if you are used to ArcGIS. It’ll be okay.ĪrcGIS = Accurate! Not usually very fancy cartography output unless you try REALLY hard and even then there might be some difficulties (but I’ve done it).Īdobe Illustrator = Smooth, rich. In the interest of expediency these are not complete sentences.

Note that we’re talking about making maps, not GIS data creation, maintenance, or analysis. If anyone can benefit from a quick, very rough, back of the napkin style analysis, then here’s an attempt at a two minute overview of various software options for making maps.

Mapublisher artboards how to#

Here are some reasons: (1) it would be a lot of work to compare and contrast all the software out there and it’s been done ( wikipedia comparison) (2) the focus of the blog is more on design–it’s up to you to figure out how to get to that well-designed end-point, (3) the list of products keeps changing, and (4) everyone has their favorite workflow and they are all good. There isn’t a lot of chat on this blog about specific software.