Draw it with Ortelius
Whether you need to show your location, study area, service territories, neighborhood, trends, news, or world, Ortelius cartography software makes map design easy.
Ortelius® map illustration software for cartography has everything you need to draw your own custom maps.
Maps
Loaded with a broad selection of royalty-free maps featuring world, continent, and country map templates to customize and make your own.
Ortelius is a new way to communicate your project through maps, make landscape and floor plans, show service territories, and well… draw your world.
Choose from templates, use your own existing (GIS) map data, or make custom-scaled map graphics – you have the flexibility to decide.
Map Making Tools
Ortelius invites you to be creative. Over 20 tools for selecting, drawing, and navigation offer maximum cartographic versatility.
Roads and river bends are not points and straight line segments, draw them as they they were meant to be with flowing Bezier curves.
Thanks to Ortelius’ swift object editing, you can move shapes, adjust curves, add intelligent labels, rotate directly, and add or remove vertices along your paths with ease.
Automatic Junctions. Roads know how they connect to each other and junctions are drawn properly, fully automatically. If it needs moving, all of its connector roads move with it, maintaining junctions as it goes.
Introducing Linear Select™. Need to insert a bridge? Highlight the road and insert one. Linear select gives you “just-right positioning” of labels, image adornments, and much more.
Now, that’s handy.