We are very excited to announce the release of MAPublisher 11, the latest version of our MAPublisher extension for Adobe Illustrator. See it, and the other resulting maps, below! Our process of creating a map in 5 minutes was recorded and condensed into a 30-second video. All of these elements were added to the document using native Adobe Illustrator tools. Add Finishing Touchesįinally, we added a title and supplemental text and objects to the map.
We enabled leader lines to ensure all countries were labeled even if the label was too large. We used LabelPro for this to make it quick and simple. In step four, the goal was to add a label for the country names. Removing Rule 1 from the list and adding a title (if desired) were the only extra steps necessary here. Using the hamburger menu button in the MAP Themes panel, step three included creating a legend for the map. Finally, a rule was created to create a grey style for the part of North America that attaches to South America. The categories were assigned a style based on a pre-selected colour ramp. For example, one map was created using the Population Density attribute. The Batch Generate Rules… button was very helpful in quickly creating categories for the data based on the desired attribute. The stylesheet editor was then opened, and the style was assigned to the country layer. From here a stylesheet was created by clicking the Add button and creating an area stylesheet.
The second step was to add a stylesheet to the countries using the MAP Themes button. The MAP View Editor could also be used to fine-tune the movement of the data.
After import, the Artboard tool was used to adjust map boundaries to the desired position. The first step was to import country area data using the Import button on the MAP Toolbar. We broke down the process of making this map into five general steps for the purpose of simplicity.
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In the weeks leading up to this day, we taught them how to perform a few simple tasks in MAPublisher to create a basic map of South America. The Day 13 theme of the #30DayMapChallenge was more of a question: can you create a map in 5 minutes? Well, we were up for the challenge! Here at Avenza, we used this as an opportunity to teach our marketing team (with limited GIS experience) the basics of cartography.
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