Articles for Ortelius

China Point: Book Cover Map Illustrated with Ortelius

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China Point is the new mystery-thriller from best-selling author Tom Snyder. Follow top fraud investigator Dann Arthur as he uncovers wrongdoing at the highest levels in his own company, and share the excitement off Catalina Island where Dann’s small boat is almost run down by an out-of-control yacht. Read more »

Oh, The Places You’ve Been! Working With Ortelius Map Templates

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Ortelius delivers with dozens of world, region, and country outline templates. Using styles, symbols, and labels, these maps are easily customized. We’ll create a map from start-to-finish that shows the states we’ve visited. Find out how to modify any template map to make it your own. Read more »

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Ortelius Awarded Best Mac App: 2011 Swipe Design Awards

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Mapdiva is the proud recipient of the “Best Mac Application” for our Ortelius cartography software. The Swipe Awards are an opportunity to recognize some of the best apps being created in Australia. We are truly honored by the recognition! Read more »

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Get Your Kicks from these Route 66 Maps!

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We’d like to congratulate Tom Snyder, author of “Route 66: Traveler’s Guide and Roadside Companion,” on his recently published book edition. This fully revised and updated book includes dozens of elegant and easy-to-read new maps produced with the Ortelius software. It was a labor of love as Tom spent months meticulously creating over 92 maps, as well as completely updating and expanding the bestselling guide itself, for the fourth edition. Read more »

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Find, Follow, Share Mapdiva

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This month we’ve propped up our communication offerings so you can get the information you need where you need it – in your preferred format. Read more »

Ortelius 1.1.2 Update

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We are pleased to announce a new Ortelius update is now available.

Ortelius 1.1.2 offers greater flexibility and ease of use. Labels now support rotation, text can be edited within a group without ungrouping, styles and symbols can be dragged directly onto your map canvas, and tons of other great enhancements and bug fixes are included. See the full list of changes. Read more »

Available on the Mac App Store

Our Thoughts on the Mac App Store

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The Mac App Store launched Jan. 6 and promises to be a great thing for Mac users. That the Mac App Store makes software license installation all but disappear, offers convenient multi-Mac licenses, and effortless one-click installation and updates is hard to ignore. Then there is discoverability. Here is a tweet that pretty much sums it up for us… “From the Mac App Store: Artboard – a vector drawing app I never would have seen otherwise.” Read more »

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2011 AAG Conference

Geography on the Mac

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Mapdiva is pleased to present the “Geography on the Mac” session at the 2011 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA on April 12-16.

Geography on the Mac is becoming an increasingly viable option in the geography curriculum as technologies continue to change and evolve. Read more »

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Practical Cartography Day – October 13, 2010

Join Us at the North American Cartographic Information Society Annual Meeting

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10.07.10 Mapdiva co-founder Jill Saligoe-Simmel will join mapmakers, map users, map librarians, and map enthusiasts in St. Petersburg, Florida this October to talk about the thing we all love – maps! Jill will demonstrate Ortelius’ map symbol creation and sharing tools at Practical Cartography Day on October 13th. The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS), founded in 1980, is Read more »

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NATO Equipment Map Symbol Collection

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download collection (1.4MB)

provided by: Mapdiva Read more »

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