Historic Map Effects with ArcGIS
November 6, 2006 4 Comments
I see that ESRI has posted their presentation on historic map effects with ArcGIS from the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS), NACIS 2006 conference. I’m not sure how much demand there is for these kinds of effects, but it is so damn cool that you have to take a look. Everything is included along with notes on how to create the effects. I wish they wouldn’t dump this stuff in the Basemap data models page as I think it gets lost in the shuffle, but I’m glad to see some new Desktop tips and tricks.
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It’s like the maps we used to make back in the pirate days, arr! Ports good for carousing were annotated with a bottle of rum, towns good for pillaging with a pile of coins. Sea monsters, ghost ships, zephyrs, and mermaids sprinkled liberally for extra flavor.
That comes in handy in Colorado I bet Sean.
Has anyone at ESRI followed up on this? I know they were working on other datasets to release with Historic Map Effects, as well as “stream tapering” but I haven’t seen anything in a while.
I’ve been able to recreate historic map effects post GIS in Illustrator, so this should be something to look at.
I’ve been tinkering with the idea of recreating double-lined streams, where one side of the stream line s thicker than the other, using topology rules, but it is pretty squirrely due to the nature of the stream datasets themselves.