Maps were received from as far away and disparate locations as Tasmania and Latvia and represented geography from locations as varied as Namibia and 19th century Europe. Entries were received from a variety of academic, governmental and private business organizations and individuals. Each and every map exemplified excellent and knowledgeable use of MAPublisher as well as skillful cartographic eyes and hands.
We would like to thank all of those who took the time to enter our competition and although we could only select a small sample as the best in each category we want to congratulate all entrants for a job well done.
Below you will find a detailed listing of all the winners and honourable mentions and have an opportunity to view each of these great works. ENJOY!
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| Title: Road Atlas of Latvia Author(s): Gints Millins, Janis Turlajs, Mareks Kilups, Martins Vimba, submitted by Gvido Petersons Organization: Jana Seta Map Publishers Ltd., Riga, Latvia Copyright: Jana Seta Map Publishers Ltd. Description: The Road Atlas of Latvia is at a general scale of 1:200000. It also includes individual maps of interesting places at 1:100000 scale and maps of 96 cities, towns and villages of Latvia at a scale of 1:20000. Additionaly the atlas includes overview maps of Latvia, the Baltic states, and Eastern Europe. The main maps, in scales 1:200000 and 100000 features all topographic (excluding contours), cultural, touristic and driving information. The maps were made from an ESRI GIS-based database in scales 1:200000, 1:100000, and 1:50000 and a general objects database. The main database (1:200000) was drawn in FreeHand and Adobe Illustrator (with and without MAPublisher), transfered to ArcView via MAPublisher and encoded. All the graphic map compilation was made in Adobe Illustrator with MAPublisher 4.0. Supplemental maps were made with various software applications. Although we acknowledge that it was very difficult to select a single overall "Best Map", this map book demonstrates a wide and knowledgeable use of MAPublisher, GIS and graphics applications and is a tremendous compilation that truely epotomizes what can be achieved when MAPublisher is put into the right hands. The book and maps were printed in Latvia. This map also won the transportation category. |
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This category produced a tie. Title: Toronto Parks and Trails Author(s): Rudy Zangari Organization: City of Toronto Urban Development Services, Toronto, ON, Canada Copyright: City of Toronto, Economic Development, Parks and Recreation Description: This map, developed as a resource for hikers and leisure walkers, was intended to help people navigate through the many parks and trails that make Toronto special. The front side of the map provides an overview of the entire City of Toronto. The reverse side provides detailed maps of a number of popular walking routes in the City. Various city agencies including, Parks & Recreation, Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), & Land Information Toronto, provided the cartographers Arcinfo, Mapinfo & shape files of the following information: Street Fabric including major & secondary roads and names, TTC routes & stops, community centres, parks & park names, hospitals, fire and ambulance stations, libraries and major points of interest. MAPublisher was used to build these GIS Layers to the base map and apply design styles. The trails were also walked by Parks & Rec staff to ensure the accuracy of the map. |
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Title: South Taconic Range Author(s): Patrick Dunlavey Organization: Pat Dunlavey Cartographics, Williamstown, MA, USA Copyright: Pat Dunlavey Cartographics Description: South Taconic Range is part of the "Green Series" of maps in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, designed to promote appreciation for and recreational use of open space. This map began with original photogrammetry by Pat Dunlavey, using 1996 NAPP aerial photography (1:40,000) from the USGS, on a Galileo Stereosimplex G6 analog stereoplotter interfaced with a personal computer. This basemap was taken to the field where all trails were surveyed by Ethan Plunkett. Boundary data from MassGIS and The Nature Conservancy were incorporated. Photogrammetric basemap compilation and digitizing of field work was performed in Microstation and geodata processing was performed using FME. A digital elevation model was created (by a subcontractor using the TopoGrid module of ArcInfo) from the digitized contours, drainage and flatwater. Shaded relief was rendered in GRASS. Land cover was rendered in Photoshop and combined with the shaded relief using a layer-mask process, which allows the coloring of the shaded relief to be dictated by the land cover. Texture substitution and embossing was also performed in Photoshop on the forest layer to provide a degree of realistic forest texture. The rendered background image, along with the vector data were imported and geo-referenced in Macromedia FreeHand 9 file using MAPublisher. |
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Title: Tasman National Park Author(s): Tim Parker Organization: Department of Primary Industries, Water & Environment (DPIWE), Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Copyright: Department of Primary Industries, Water & Environment Description: Tasman was designed to be affordable, easily updated & offset printed. The intended use was as a general road/route guide with emphasis on the National Park and tracks therein with associated notes. DPIWE data is held within an Oracle database with spatial data managed by an SDE. 1:25000 attributed GIS data & nomenclature were extracted to ArcView shape files, with MAPublisher allowing the setting of symbology classifications & most textual placement. Final enhancement was in Adobe Illustrator with limited use of Photoshop. A few special effects were used such as beach vignettes. The cliffs were scanned from hand scribed originals which were trimmed and enhanced. |
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Title: Geologic Map of the Yucca Mountain Region, Nye County, Nevada Author(s): Chris Potter, submitted by Alex Donatich Organization: United States Geological Survey, Denver, CO, USA Copyright: USA Public Domain Description: MAPublisher was used to import a combination of shapefiles and DXF files into Illustrator for the geologic map itself and the four cross sections. The map and cross sections were originally digitized in AutoCAD and/or ArcInfo. MAPubisher and Illustrator were used for final map composition. |
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Title: Fostering Transit Oriented Development in Boston Author(s): Martin Gamache Organization: Boston Redevelopment Authority, Boston, MA, USA Copyright: Boston Redevelopment Authority Description: This map was created for inter-agency, regional planning purposes, its intended audience being planners. It was used to visualize future transit coverage on a 10 to 20 year horizon in relation to other city programs such as the Main Streets Initiative. Data source was internal and from other city agencies mostly in mid/mif format. MapInfo 6.0 was used to buffer and clip objects. The map was put together in FreeHand with MAPublisher. MAPublisher was used to import the mid/mifs and for labeling purposes. |
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Title: Road Atlas of Latvia Author(s): Gints Millins, Janis Turlajs, Mareks Kilups, Martins Vimba, submitted by Gvido Petersons Organization: Jana Seta Map Publishers Ltd., Riga, Latvia Copyright: Jana Seta Map Publishers Ltd. Description: The Road Atlas of Latvia is at a general scale of 1:200000. It also includes individual maps of interesting places at 1:100000 scale and maps of 96 cities, towns and villages of Latvia at a scale of 1:20000. Additionaly the atlas includes overview maps of Latvia, the Baltic states, and Eastern Europe. The main maps, in scales 1:200000 and 100000 features all topographic (excluding contours), cultural, touristic and driving information. The maps were made from an ESRI GIS-based database in scales 1:200000, 1:100000, and 1:50000 and a general objects database. The main database (1:200000) was drawn in FreeHand and Adobe Illustrator (with and without MAPublisher), transfered to ArcView via MAPublisher and encoded. All the graphic map compilation was made in Adobe Illustrator with MAPublisher 4.0. Supplemental maps were made with various software applications. The map was printed in Latvia. This map also won the best map overall award. |
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This category produced a tie. Title: Colorado River Basin Author(s): Michael Christensen Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA Copyright: Brigham Young University Description: The Colorado River Basin wall map was created for Dr. Jeffrey Durrant of the Department of Geography at Brigham Young University. It shows the basin, its hydrology, land ownership, and transportation routes, along with state and county boundaries. Data was collected from the National Atlas, processed using ArcView 3.2, and imported into FreeHand 8.0 with MAPublisher. Work was completed in FreeHand using MAPublisher 3.5. |
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Title: Movement of Goods & Services from Canada into Ontario Author(s): Greg Wolowich, Tim Wykes Organization: Sir Sandford Fleming College, Lindsay, ON, Canada Copyright: Sir Sandford Fleming College Description: ArcView, Arcinfo, AutoCAD, Geomedia, MicroStation, Illustrator 9 and MAPublisher 3.5 were all used in the creation of this map. Students were permitted to choose any subject matter they wanted provided it had a Canadian interest. They chose the data and created the map using MAPublisher to display their findings. This map was chosen partly because of its artistic content and innovative legend use. |
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Title: Great Bay Author(s): Chris Jessee Organization: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA Copyright: Kathy Poole, IATH University of Virginia Description: Great Bay is an interactive map series showing the development of the Back Bay area of Boston. It is composed of a series of maps showing the changes in the area over time which were assembled into a Flash animation. MAPublisher 4.0 was used with Adobe Illustrator 9. ArcView and Photoshop were also used. The animation was created using Flash. One of the aspects that distinguishes this project is how it delivers information. Through the maps you may search spatially by querying elements in the study area. These objects include buildings, roads, dams, railroads, bridges, and various landscape areas like gardens and districts of the city. As you move your cursor over the objects and areas of interest, pop up text windows identify them. Clicking an object prompts a search engine to retrieve the object's specific record, which also offers entry to related searches. The full animated map can be viewed online at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/backbay/fenssite/html/maps/map01.html |
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Title: The 1812 Campaign of Napoleon Author(s): Jeroen van den Worm Organization: International Institute for Geoinformation Science & Earth Observation, Enschede, Netherlands Copyright: International Institute for Geoinformation Science & Earth ObservationI Description: The 1812 Campaign of Napoleon was a project created using a combination of ArcView (to classify the original statistical data of the battle losses / number of troops), MAPublisher 4.0 with FreeHand (to import the ArcView results and design and prepare all the graphics and maps), Adobe Photoshop (to enhance the map background and to visualize the seasonal impact on the landscape) and Flash (to create the interactive map and to add the sound effects. The full interactive map can be viewed online at http://www.itc.nl/personal/worm/napoleon/indexnap.html |
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Although we could only choose one (or sometimes two) winners in each category, we would like to acknowledge the following maps which we regard as excellent in their own right. |
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Category: General Purpose Title: Stadsplattegrond Apeldoorn Author(s): Theo Hessing Organization: City of Apeldoorn, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands Copyright: City of Apeldoorn Description: This map is the result of a consultancy contract between the city of Apeldoorn and eXQte. They co-operated jointly to produce this result. The map is the end result of a work process that goes from a set of MicroStation DGN files to a finished map image in approximately 30 minutes. Thanks to well structured source data, a number of FME mapping files and MAPublisher legends, map production is fast and standardized. The goal of the project was to come up with a workflow for the cities mapping needs, which called for rapid and standardized production. This particular map is meant as a general purpose street map of the city. Similar maps are made of the surrounding villages. |
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Category: General Purpose Title: Louisiana Coastal Zone 2002 Author(s): Robert Paulsell, John Snead, and L.G. Pond Organization: Louisiana Geological Survey, Baton Rouge, LA, USA Copyright: Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, Coastal Management Division, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Description: This map was designed to accompany the description of the Louisiana Coastal Zone Boundary as established by Act 361 of 1978. Most data was brought into Illustrator 8.01 via the MAPublisher 4.0 plug-ins. The original data was developed as ESRI shapefiles created in either ArcView 3.2, ArcInfo 7.0, or Intergraph Corp. Microstation MGE. All design and cartographic symbology was created in Illustrator 8.01 using MAPublisher. |
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Category: Multimedia Title: XYZ Glasgow CityMap CD Author(s): Mark Fairbairn Organization: The XYZ Digital Map Company, Dalkeith, Scotland Copyright: The XYZ Digital Map Company Description: This is the latest in the XYZ series of CityMap CDs. The data was prepared in Mapinfo from air photos and fieldwork The data was then transferred into Illustrator and symbolised using MAPublisher. Images were created in Photoshop. |
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Category: Special Purpose Title: Mid-Dorchester Corridor / City Links - Dorchester Author(s): Martin Gamache Organization: Boston Redevelopment Authority, Boston, MA, USA Copyright: Boston Redevelopment Authority Description: This map was put together for multi-agency planning purposes. The intended audience is urban planners at both the city and regional levels. Most of the data used was in mid/mif format. Some GIS work was performed in Mapinfo 6.0 such as buffering and clipping. The map was assembled in Macromedia FreeHand using MAPublisher. MAPublisher was used to import the mid/mif data files and for labeling and legend creation purposes. |
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Category: Special Purpose
Title: Molokai Author(s): Robert Franklin Organization: Franklin Graphic Services Inc., Makawao, HI, USA Copyright: Franklin Graphic Services Inc. Description: This map was designed for the visitor industry association brochure to illustrate salient features and driving routes for tourists on the Island of Molokai, Hawaii. 1:24000 scale e00 & DRG data was imported via MAPublisher into Adobe Illustrator, including point data and shapes for coastline, cities, rivers, lakes, towns, airports etc. Latitude and longitude data were formatted into a .txt file to be imported into Illustrator via MAPublisher to generate a lat-long grid. DEMs were rendered from 10-meter data in Natural Scene Designer as light and shadow gray scale images. Texture and terrain interpretations were designed in Photoshop and then placed in appropriate positions on the rendered DEM using DRG data and knowledge of the area. Masks were made for light and shadow and colour was added by hand. Elements from Illustrator were laid down in Photoshop semi-transparently and the entire Photoshop document was returned to Illustrator for placement of label text and other vector elements for final submission to the publisher. |
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Category: Topographic Title: Swartbooisdrif 1:250'000 3rd Edition Author(s): Yves Baudot Organization: NADAR / Lux-Development, Marchin, Belgium Copyright: Directorate of Survey and Mapping of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia Description: This map is a revision of the 1:250000 series of 44 map sheets covering Namibia. Orthophotos were produced from aerial photos at scale 1:78000. Some data was captured from the existing maps, circa late 70's, using scanning & automatic vectorisation. Other data came from an existing database and was interpreted from the orthophotos and during field work. All the GIS work was done using Geomedia Pro and ArcView. The result of this GIS process was shape files, with related databases including all lineage data and quality control. The map editing process was done entirely with MAPublisher. MAPublisher was used to import the shape files to apply the symbolism, which was based on an existing map. Most of the legend is quite classic for a topographic map (roads, rivers, etc.) but for the land cover, seamless tiling patterns were used for some classes. The concept of transparent colours was introduced for the orthophotos placed in the background to give a better idea of the relief in very complex areas like mountains and shifting dunes. These maps are part of a first series of 22 map sheets covering the north of the country. At the same time, the Government of Namibia started the revision of the 1:50000 maps (1250 maps for the whole country). All these maps will be offset-printed. This project was co-funded by the Government of Namibia and the co-operation programme of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. The aim of the development project was to first obtain, in short term, an updated version of topo maps that were needed for many development purposes, and secondly to develop a local capacity to update more maps and to maintain a national map coverage where little or none existed. In order to reach this second objective, it was necessary to define an easy and affordable solution for map production. MAPublisher was clearly one of the keys for this. At one stage an independent comparative evaluation was done between this methodology and what is used in other countries and this solution was assessed to be approx. 20% of the cost of similar exercises conducted elsewhere. |
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Category: Transportation Title: Orlando Florida Wall Map Author(s): David DePorter Organization: Digital Concepts of Daytona, Port Orange, FL, USA Copyright: Universal Map Enterprises, Sanford, FL, USA Description: The Orlando Wall map was primarily created as a transportation map. Sources used in the map's creation included: paper maps, raster images, AutoCAD, MicroStation, MapInfo, and ArcView files. Different workflows were used depending on the source/format of the files. Some of the techniques that were used included digitization using snap functions to avoid over-shoots and under-shoots, thinning functions to reduce final file sizes, and labeling and symbolization based on attributes. MAPublisher was primarily used in this project as a product-finishing tool. This map is a full size wall map measuring over 6 feet by 6 feet and contains a high level of detail. |
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Category: Topographic
Title: Mount Adams - Map 367S Author(s): Charles Kitterman Organization: Kulshan Cartographic Services, Bellingham, WA, USA Copyright: Green Trails Inc., Seattle, WA, USA Description: Mount Adams - Map 367S is a topographic recreation map created primarily for use by various trail users and other outdoor recreationalists. The data sources used include USGS, USFWS, Yakama Nation GIS, EPA, and WA State DNR. Some data was processed by a third party GIS services company to get equivalent datums, etc. All MAPublisher import filter choices were used to get all of this varying data imported to Adobe Illustrator. The MAPublisher Projection filter was used on all layers after importing to go from UTM to Lambert CC. Then all the layers were put into the correct page co-ordinates with the MAPublisher Transform Scale function. The MAPublisher Select by Attribute function was used extensively as was Feature Text Label for most of the initial type placement. |
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