[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas

[Nathan Woodrow]

Barry,

This sounds like a good idea, I would be happy to contribute
something. I have two ESRI map books at work that I sometimes use to
get an idea on how other people visualize different data sets.

- Nathan

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Barry Rowlingson
<b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Simon Cropper
> <simoncropper at fossworkflowguides.com> wrote:
>
>> I think it important however that people *do not* use Inkscape, unless
>> of course it is being put up as an fosGIS package. Using Inkscape has
>> come about due to the inherent deficiencies in map production in various
>> packages.
>>
>> Any maps produced for such a book need to be produced solely using the
>> package they are meant to be showcasing. Otherwise the resulting map is
>> not representative of what can be produced using a particular GIS
>> package but rather the artistic skill of the cartographer!
>
> [ Can the people discussing Arnulf's public geospatial data committee
> stuff please change their subject line and start a new thread? thx ]
>
>  Hi Simon,
>
>    if I was worried about having too many maps for the atlas then I'd
> consider putting more restrictions on the entries. However my fear is
> having too few. Plus it is indeed partly intended to show artistic
> skill and as long as the work is substantially created using
> open-source software then I wouldn't reject it.
>
>  Aspects of commercial cartography are still done outside of
> commercial GIS - eg by loading Windows Metafiles from a GIS into Adobe
> Illustrator - and I see no reason why that workflow can't be allowed
> for Open Source Cartography. I don't think Open Source GIS needs to be
> Open Source GIS Plus Desktop Publishing.
>
>  Also, we get to highlight integration between open source projects
> that is facilitated by Open Standards, and those standards are going
> beyond spatial standards (such as using SVG to go between Qgis and
> Inkscape).
>
>
> Barry
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