10 Awesome -and Free- Mountain Map Symbols for Mac

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A map made with Ortelius cartography software (Mac OS) using mountain symbols.
It’s been a great year for Ortelius map design software for Mac OS X. To celebrate our first anniversary, we come bearing gifts. Mapdiva is pleased to bring you this new collection of Hills & Mountains free map symbols. More… Read more »

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Cartographic Technique

Drawing City-Block Style Maps

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City-block style maps (sometimes referred to as “European-style”) are characterized by their use of negative space. Shapes – in the form of city blocks – define the positive space, whereas the road areas are negative space. While Ortelius excels at designing modern style road maps, with connectable tracks and built-in symbols, it also has great tools for creating city-block style maps. Here’s how… Read more »

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Ortelius 1.0.9 for Cartography

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04.13.10 Mapdiva, LLC is pleased to announce Ortelius 1.0.9 is now available, the latest update of their cartographic design software for Mac OS X. Ortelius is a vector-based cartography application that helps you create high-quality custom map graphics, plans, and scaled drawings. Ortelius 1.0.9 contains a number of bug fixes and other changes for added stability. For a full list of changes, please see the release notes.

This is a free update for existing users. The update is offered automatically if you have enabled Ortelius to check for updates, or manually by choosing Ortelius > Check For Updates.

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New and improved!

Map Points of Interest with Smart Sequence Markers

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When you need to map points of interest with numbered placemarkers, look no further than Ortelius’ smart Sequence Markers. These symbols save time and sanity. Place Sequence Markers just like any other symbol and they’ll automatically number themselves 1,2,3… (we should call them magic).

Our customers have been finding Sequence Markers really useful, and with their suggestions we’ve made Sequence Markers even better. Here’s how… Read more »

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Using the Style Inspector

Randomized Patterns Make Interesting Map Fills

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Randomized patterns can add texture and variety to an otherwise flat map. This is an especially good effect for representing features with naturally occurring randomness, such as ground-cover and forests. Ortelius has several tools in the Style Inspector to help you make awesome randomized patterns. Here’s how…

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custom map styles

Make a Dot Screen Pattern Map Style

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Ortelius is loaded with styles and symbols. You can also create your own. Here we show how to create a dot screen pattern. Read more »

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Ortelius map making software for Mac OS X

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Ortelius® is a new way to communicate your project through maps, make landscape plans, show service territories, and well… draw your world. Read more »

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Learn with hands-on tutorials

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“All I can say is WOW!!! The enhanced learning-demo templates are fantastic.” Daniel F.

    Ortelius® is so easy to use that the basics can be mastered in a matter of hours, as opposed to weeks, months, or even years with other software. Read more »

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