David Lambert, Director of Cartographic Production for National Geographic’s commercial retail mapping products, which includes its well known Trails Illustrated outdoor recreation map series, and.I discussed the synergy between these two programs with two experts: For more than 20 years, Avenza’s MAPublisher has provided extensive GIS functionality inside Adobe Illustrator. Therefore, cartographers need an efficient and reliable way to bridge the divide between GIS and graphic design software.įirst launched 30 years ago, Adobe Illustrator has long been the professional standard for graphic design, especially for creating vector graphics.
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Additionally, in the real world, natural or artificial boundaries and features are constantly changing and cartographers need to update maps at different scales and in different styles to reflect these changes. Traditionally, GIS software has offered users limited ability to manipulate the graphic attributes (hue, brightness, saturation, transparency, line thickness, text, etc.) of geographic elements, while graphic design software has treated geographic features as it would any other graphic elements, without regard for how they are connected in predictable ways to other geographic elements and to Earth itself.
Modern cartography-the art, science, and technology of making maps-consists of manipulating and displaying geographic elements in a graphic environment. Original article from Directions Magazine on October 4, 2017.
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