[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas

[julia harrell]

I did not suggest that *all* the  maps would not be as 'pretty'. I
said that even if *some* of them weren't as pretty, that they'd still
be superior products if they included information on how they were
created and the design principles used, etc.

I think we are all aware that it is (for the moment) still a bit more
of a challenge to get really beautiful cartographic output from some
(but not all) open source GIS software products.


On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Barry Rowlingson
<b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 2:26 PM, julia harrell <julia.harrell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  This would make it a superior product - even if
>> some of the maps aren't quite as 'pretty' as those in the ESRI map
>> book :)
>
>  Why wouldn't they be as pretty? You're exhibiting the very prejudice
> I'd like to exterminate! :)
>
>  Actually it's probably an effect caused by weight-of-numbers and
> there being more professional carto types using commercial software.
>
> Barry
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