Using Ortelius Map Templates
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Tags: cartography, editable map, map design, map templates, vector map
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. Read more »
Tags: Abraham Ortelius, cartography software, classic cartography, Erwin Raisz, free map symbols, Heather Child, hill symbols, historic map symbols, Mac mapping software, map design, mountain symbols, physiographic map, pictorial maps
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. Ortelius excels at designing modern style road maps, with connectable tracks and built-in symbols, and it also has great tools for creating city-block style maps. Read more »
Tags: cartographic technique, cartography, cartography software, city block map, draw a map, editable map, historical map, map design, vector map
Mac users can now easily make custom tourism and recreation maps with the full set of U.S. National Park Service (NPS) recreation map symbols included with Ortelius cartography software. Ortelius is a vector-based drawing program made especially for map design and presentation. Ortelius offers a creative solution for floor plans, landscape plans, scaled drawings, and a wide variety of high quality custom map graphics. Ortelius is designed exclusively for Mac OS X. Read more »
Tags: accessibility symbols, architecture symbols, boating symbols, boundaries symbols, fishing symbols, food symbols, hiking symbols, land cover symbols, lodging symbols, map design, National Park Service, NPS, pedestrians symbols, recreation map symbols, sight-seeing symbols, transportation symbols, trees and plants symbols, water recreation symbols, water symbols, weather symbols, winter recreation symbols
Adding lists and tables to your map layout is easy-breezy in Ortelius. Simply copy and paste from other source documents or create lists and tables from scratch. Here’s how… Read more »
Tags: cartography, layout, lists, map design, Ortelius, tables, typography
Ortelius has always had great tools to create smooth meandering rivers & streams. Now they can look even better with naturally tapering ends. We’ve added an expert Tapered Stroke component to the Style Inspector – you can use it to design your own creative map styles. Here’s how… Read more »
Tags: cartographic technique, drawing rivers on maps, map design, map making, map style, map symbol, tapered river, tutorial
09.17.09 Ortelius map illustration software for Mac OS X makes map design easier with special cartography tools, high-quality graphics, and hundreds of vector-based styles and symbols. One of the most powerful features of Ortelius is its innovative what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) labeling system. Read more »
Tags: cartography, graphic design, labels, map design