Ortelius map making software for Mac OS X
Ortelius® is a new way to communicate your project through maps, make landscape plans, show service territories, and well… draw your world.
Cartography Software for Mac OS X
Ortelius is a vector-based cartography software program for drawing maps of all types. Ortelius helps you create high-quality custom map graphics, plans, and scaled drawings. Ortelius offers a creative solution with superior quality graphics – perfect for reports, presentations, and publications.
A picture is worth a thousand words and maps are powerfully effective means for communicating. However, until now, creating professional quality map graphics has just been too hard, too time consuming, or both. Ortelius solves this problem by automating many of the graphics tasks that are most common for mapping and most tedious for graphic design, such as automatic road junctions, smart sequence markers, and smooth style transitions. Ortelius supports the rich attribute information behind map features typically associated with geographic information systems (GIS) data enabling fast, intelligent labeling – one of the most difficult aspects to map-making.
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It’s your world. Draw it with Ortelius.
System Requirements
Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or later
Core Image supported graphics card
Recommended
2 GHz Intel processor
2+ button scroll mouse
Pen Tablet Support (optional)
Freedom to hand-draw your map – a simple, easy, and fun way to harness your creativity.
Technical Specifications
Drawing
• WYSIWYG drawing and editing
• Fully editable, smooth vector graphics
• Specify canvas size, color, and texture; graph paper grid size; index grid layout, color, and labeling
• Direct intelligent labeling
Select and Edit
• Search and select by visible text; advance select; select all, select others; new layer from selection
• Convert objects to-and-from paths, shapes, and connectable paths, path outlines, and text objects
• Combine objects (union, intersect, difference, exclusive of, and append)
• Intelligent labeling with attributes
Geographic Intelligence
• Graphics support attribute information
• Real-world locational coordinates and common map projections (Professional Edition features; under development)
• Scale and measure
User Interface and Mac OS X Integration
• Tools and symbols palettes, style inspector, object inspector, font, color, image browser
• Image Browser, drag-and-drop support
• Rulers, guides, grid
File Formats
• Import .jpg, .bmp, .gif, .png, .pdf, and .tif image graphics, and ESRI map shapefile (limited in Standard edition); export .tif, .jpg, .png, and layered .pdf
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