Mapdiva, LLC

Mapdiva is pleased to announce the completely revised Getting Started With Ortelius workbook (6.77MB), including hands-on tutorials and demo files, is now available. Read more »

08.25.09 In the wake of Ortelius’ recent release to the world, the software earns listing as an Apple Featured 3rd Party Download and Staff Pick. Ortelius is a vector-based drawing and cartographic design program made especially for map design and presentation. Through its drag-and-drop interface, Ortelius offers a creative solution for floor plans, landscape plans, scaled drawings, and a wide variety of high quality custom maps, as well as serves to address a lack of mapmaking software for the Mac OS X platform. Visit http://www.mapdiva.com/learn/ for a video introduction to Ortelius.

Mapdiva, LLC announces the first release of Ortelius map illustration software for Mac OS X.  Ortelius is a powerful vector-based program allowing you to easily create floor plans, landscape plans, scaled drawings, and a wide variety of high quality custom maps.  Designed for ease-of-use, it allows you to draw directly with features such as roads, rivers, coastlines, buildings, symbols, and contours.

Features of Ortelius Standard Edition

• hundreds of styles and symbols
• WYSIWYG drawing and editing
• dozens of fully editable map templates
• smooth vector graphics
• automatic junctions
• direct intelligent labeling
• scalable maps and plans
• 20+ special drawing tools

More About Ortelius Map Illustration Software

Ortelius software is designed as a dedicated map graphics program for Mac OS X. Ortelius 1.0 Standard Edition is available for $99 USD.  Introductory pricing of $79 is available until Sept 30, 2009.  A free trial download is available from their website www.mapdiva.com.

More About Mapdiva, LLC

Mapdiva makes mapping easier.  Founded in 2008, Mapdiva, LLC develops software for mappers large and small.  Mapdiva, LLC has offices in Indianapolis, IN USA and Armidale, NSW Australia.

08.19.09 A big thank-you to all of our testers and reviewers – we’ve made it!  Check out our new web site for all the details on Ortelius, including a downloadable trial version.  We’ll continue to add tips & tricks and screencasts to our web site to maintain it not only as our product site, but also as a rich educational resource for map making.  To celebrate, we are offering an introductory special of $79 until September 30th.  Development continues and we’d love to hear from you.

Ortelius® is a new way to communicate your project through maps, make landscape plans, show service territories, and well… draw your world. Mapdiva is dedicated to making intuitive mapping software so you can focus your creative energy on content and design. Finally, map-making software for the rest of us.