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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 22:37:39 -0600
From: Dennis McClendon <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Software question <fwd>
Sender: Dennis McClendon <[log in to unmask]>
>I've been asked to recommend software for "creating maps of international
>locations" on a home computer.
A couple of options come to mind, depending on the patron's level of interest:
Acquire bitmap maps, either from the web (free from Magellan site) or from
a clip art package, and annotate them using a bitmap (paint) program. She
probably already has a simple bitmap editor in Windows (or, one could hope,
MacPaint).
Second option is more sophisticated: using an illustration program
(FreeHand, Illustrator, or Corel Draw) to alter vector-type clip art maps.
These are not free, but a good all-around package can be had for $100 from
Cartesia. FreeHand and its kin are not trivial to learn, but enough basics
to annotate and recolor a map can be learned in a few hours.
If she really wants to be able to map a custom-chosen swatch of the world,
perhaps spanning national borders, that might require GeoCart and its
dataset, as well as an illustration program.
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Dennis McClendon, Chicago CartoGraphics [log in to unmask]
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