Maps were received from locations as far apart as Namibia and Latvia and represented geography from locations as varied as Manhattan and Kamchatka. 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: Atlas of Namibia: A portrait of the land and its people Author(s): John Mendelsohn, Alice Jarvis, Carole Roberts and Tony Robertson Organization: Atlas of Namibia Team, Directorate Environment Affairs, Windhoek, Namibia Copyright: Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Namibia Description: This atlas was published at the end of last year and unfortunately this brief description and the images to the left do not to justice to this amazing piece of work. The book contains over 200 maps which were compiled using MAPublisher in conjunction with Adobe Illustrator 8.01 from ArcView .shp files. Apart from thematic maps, the atlas also has topographical, geological, climatic, transportation, etc. maps. It comprises six chapters: Introduction (including 7 topographical maps of the country), physical geography, climate, plants and animals, the land, and the people. The last thematic atlas of Namibia was published 20 years ago. This new atlas is a compilation of the latest GIS, images and statistical information for the country. It was compiled and produced over three years and only possible through the generous support of a great number of people and organisations. The Atlas Project was based in the Ministry of Environment (Directorate of Environmental Affairs) and funded by the Government of Finland, through a bilateral agreement. The book is one of two products of the project. The second product is the data that were assembled and processed to produce the maps. This data is available on the web at www.dea.met.gov.na This map also won the thematic category. |
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Title: Pasaules Geografijas Atlants (World Geographic Atlas) Author(s): Janis Turlajs, Gints Millins and Gvido Petersons Organization: Jana Seta Map Publishers Ltd., Riga, Latvia Copyright: Jana Seta Map Publishers Ltd. Description: The World Geographical Atlas (Pasaules Geografijas Atlants) has been issued annually since 1995. This is currently the 7th edition and it is the first version to incorporating updated maps based from GIS data using ArcView, Adobe Illustrator and MAPublisher 4.0. These maps were created in Adobe Illustrator on the Mac platform. Maps from previous editions - in FreeHand. EPS files from both Illustrator and FreeHand have been compiled in Quark Xpress. The Relief shading was created in Photoshop and warped to projection with Morph. |
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Title: Mt. Rainier Climbing Guide Author(s): Charles Kitterman Organization: Kulshan Cartographic Services, Bellingham, WA, USA Copyright: Stanley Maps, Mercer Island, WA, USA Description: The Mount Rainier Climbing Guide Map is an enhanced topographic recreation map featuring shaded relief and hand drawn natural features featuring the Emmons-Winthrop route on Mt. Rainier. The Mount Rainier Climbing Guide Map includes descriptions of historical high traverse routes on Mount Rainier, a topographic map, colour photographs and route profiles. This map was produced using Adobe Illustrator 8.01 and MAPublisher 3.5 and 4.0. |
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Title: Wandkaart Apeldoorn Author(s): Hans Van der Maarel Organization: eXQte, Klundert, The Netherlands Copyright: Gemeente Apeldoorn Afdeling Ruimtelijke Informatie, The Netherlands Description: This map is the final result of a long-term consultancy contract between eXQte and the City of Apeldoorn. It was produced using Adobe Illustrator 8.01, 9.x and 10.x as well as Macromedia FreeHand 10.x as a spin-off of their standard roadmap (which won a Notable Entry in the 2002 Map Competition), this map was made using the same general principle, but instead of being limited to a small area, the entire city and surroundings are depicted in 1:10.000 scale (map measuring 3 x 3 meters). Additional software used includes MicroStation and FME. An interesting addition is the aereal photo underneath, with transparent layers on top of it. NOTE: Only a portion of the entire map is shown here as the complete document, which measures 9 m2 on paper, is over 225 MB as a pdf file. |
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Title: Atlas of Namibia: A portrait of the land and its people Author(s): Carole Roberts , John Mendelsohn, Alice Jarvis and Tony Robertson Organization: Atlas of Namibia Team, Directorate Environment Affairs, Windhoek, Namibia Copyright: Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Namibia Description: This atlas was published at the end of last year and unfortunately this brief description and the images to the left do not to justice to this amazing piece of work. The book contains over 200 maps which were compiled using MAPublisher in conjunction with Adobe Illustrator 8.01 from ArcView .shp files. Apart from thematic maps, the atlas also has topographical, geological, climatic, transportation, etc. maps. It comprises six chapters: Introduction (including 7 topographical maps of the country), physical geography, climate, plants and animals, the land, and the people. The last thematic atlas of Namibia was published 20 years ago. This new atlas is a compilation of the latest GIS, images and statistical information for the country. It was compiled and produced over three years and only possible through the generous support of a great number of people and organisations. The Atlas Project was based in the Ministry of Environment (Directorate of Environmental Affairs) and funded by the Government of Finland, through a bilateral agreement. The book is one of two products of the project. The second product is the data that were assembled and processed to produce the maps. This data is available on the web at www.dea.met.gov.na This map also won Best Map. |
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Title: Greater Philadelphia Regional Bicycle Map Author(s): Steve Spindler, Gerry Krieg, John Boyle Organization: Steve Spindler Cartography, Jenkintown, PA, USA Copyright: Steve Spindler Cartography Description: This is a map designed by Steve Spindler Cartography, with data from the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission and the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia. A number of programs were used in creating the map. Data was imported to Adobe Illustrator 10 operating in OSX. MAPublisher was used to import and reproject data. DEMS were imported using Natural Scene Designer. Layers of data, such as parks and relief, were exported to Photoshop to add transparencies and then replaced in Illustrator at 150dpi. The final map was submitted to the printer, Pearl Pressman Liberty, as an illustrator file. They printed the map on both 70# coated stock and on Granwell plastic stock. The goal was to show the complete road system for a region that includes nine counties. The road were rated using Bicycle Level of Service models and included a great deal of field observation. The web page (www.bicyclecoalition.org/map/index.html), was created by slicing the map into segments using ImageReady. The sections were then imported back into Illustrator. |
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Title: City of Blantyre Author(s): Jonathan Shadreck Gwaligwali, submitted by Wim Feringa Organization: International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands Copyright: ITC Description: The map, a topo-sheet 1:25000 of Blantyre, Malawi, is a student's final assignment produced using data from the Survey Department of Malawi. This map was last produced in 1976 by the Ordnance Survey of England. Since then the map had never been updated so this map was produced as an updated version of that topo sheet as part of the curriculum at ITC. The final part of the course for the students is to produce a map or application that serves the institute or organization they come from. It is usually best if students have a specific description and of course data. Mr. Gwaligwali had some data and a student from the same organization had some aerial photos. They combined some work. Mr. Gwaligwali decided to work out a low-cost but high quality production line for updating and producing topo-sheets.The map was compiled and created by digiting aerial photos in Freehand with MAPublisher 4.0 and then exporting the data to Arcview as shapefiles. Once the data was completed the author created a set of styles within Freehand which were applied to the reimported shapefile data. Within only six weeks the student had setup the map specifications, designed the workflow procedure, created a style sheet, updated and edited the data and produced the map. Recently the Surveyor General of Malawi send ITC a letter stating that ".. he (Gwaligwali) produced one of the best topographic maps ..." and "...the map impressed the entire Department." Mr. Gwaligwali was asked to complete the map because it is in very high demand. |
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Title: Lower Manhattan Virtual Tour Author(s): Sumiyo Giampietro, Gregg Faus, Hepp Maccoy and Susan Baggett Organization: Company 39, Inc., Denver, CO, USA Copyright: Company 39, Inc. Description: The original map data (shape files) were imported into Illustrator 9 using Avenza's MAPublisher filters for Adobe Illustrator 9. Once the layers were in Illustrator, the designer made the appropriate changes/stylization to the map for this Virtual Tour. Macromedia Flash was then used to create the user interface which was well thought out and incorporated actionscripting. This map contains a lot of linked files such as text data files and VR images in .swf format. This is quite an exciting piece of work combining geography and multimedia and the final production includes a variety of media formats. The Lower Manhattan Virtual Tour can be found at http://www.lowermanhattan.info/flash/virtualtour/ |
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Although we could only choose one winner 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: Special Purpose Title: Recreation and Historical Sites on Public Lands of Arizona Author(s): Steve Gordon Organization: Cartagram, LLC, Madison, AL, USA Copyright: Arizona Office of Tourism, Phoenix, AZ, USA Description: This map was produced using Adobe Illustrator 10.x, Adobe Illustrator 8.x, Macromedia FreeHand 10.x and MAPublisher 4.0. The biggest challenge was integrating data from many sources. While waiting for data from to be compiled by the federal agencies, Mr. Gordon began producing the map from downloaded public land boundary data from the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and BLM. This data was integrated with downloaded Arizona state data from different sources (DLG, DCW). Once the "official" data came in it was added that to the file and the data was sorted to come up with the layers that were used in the map. Later, as localized data came in for specific sites that had changed recently, Mr. Gordon was able to integrate it into the map by importing it into the original data file. The data was compiled in FreeHand but did the map finishing was done in Illustrator. |
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Category: Special Purpose Title: Sheboygan Plat Map Author(s): Robert Lee Organization: Sheboygan County Government, Sheboygan, WI USA Copyright: Sheboygan County Government Description: Using MAPublisher, Sheboygan County was able to utilize their existing GIS data layers and compile the County Plat Book and County Plat Wall Map. The Plat Maps show all parcels in the County, labeling owner information and acreage. Adobe Illustrator 10, MAPublisher 5.0, Arcview and Arcinfo were all used in this project. Sheboygan County will continue to use MAPublisher to publish new books every two years. They remarked that they are pleased with the capabilities of the Avenza product |
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Category: Special Purpose Title: Hawkesbury River Author(s): Will Pringle Organization: Australian Geographic, Terreay Hills, NSW, Australia Copyright: Australian Geographic Description: The Hawkesbury River sheet map was produced to accompany an article about the river in Issue 71 (July-Sept. 2003) of the Australian Geographic Journal. It was sent to the 160,000 subscribers as a free supplement. Drainage and infrastucture data was purchased from Land Property Information (the state government mapping agency) and imported into Adobe Illustrator 8 as MapInfo mid/mif files via MAPublisher 4.0. The hydrographic data was obtained from the Waterways Authority of New South Wales and imported in a similar manner. National Park boundaries were supplied as a state-wide file from Land Property Information and also imported using MAPublisher. The information was reprojected and rescaled using MAPublisher. Additional revision information was gathered and limited field checking carried out. Relief shading was produced from DEM data obtained from Land Property Information, opened in MacDEM and saved as a Photoshop file. The final hill shading was rendered in Photoshop and later combined with the fill colours and some linework copied from Illustrator. |
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Category: General Purpose Title: Pasaules Politiska Karte (World Political Map) Author(s): Gvido Petersons Organization: Jana Seta Map Publishers Ltd., Riga, Latvia Copyright: Jana Seta Map Publishers Ltd. Description: The World Political Map (Pasaules politiska karte), 2nd edition, was completely created with Adobe Illustrator using MAPublisher 5.0 under Windows 2000. GIS databases were created with ArcView and ArcInfo. Data layers were initially projected in ArcView and imported into Illustrator with MAPublisher. Maps of the Arctic and Antarctic regions were created separately and imported as EPS files. The time zone map was created from special small scale database and also illustrates daylight saving time around a World. |
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Category: Topographic Title: The Grand River Watershed Author(s): Lara Vujanic Organization: Grand River Conservation Authority, Cambridge, ON, Canada Copyright: Grand River Conservation Authority Description: This map poster celebrates the many resources of the watershed of the Grand River, which has been designated a Canadian Heritage River. Used as a learning tool, this map highlights the Grand River watershed's resources, and brings to light the challenges facing a growing watershed community. The map uses various data sets collected by the Grand River Conservation Authority's Geomatics Program for the purpose of resolving watershed issues and supporting decision-making. These data sets were brought into Adobe Illustrator 9.0 using MAPublisher 4.0. |
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Category: Topographic Title: East Hudson Trails Author(s): Herb Chong Organization: New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, Mahwah, NJ, USA Copyright: New York-New Jersey Trail Conference Description: Prior editions of this map were produced on mylar film with traditional cartographic processes. This is the first edition of the map set produced using digital mapping technology. Data used includes NYS 10m DEM, USGS 1:100K DLG and GPS data from trail surveyors as well as NYS DOQQs, and GIS data from various organizations owning properties in the area covered. Adobe Illustrator, MAPublisher, CorelDraw, Arcinfo and Adobe Photoshop were all used in the design and production of this map. |
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Category: Transportation
Title: San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation System Author(s): Peter Beeler Organization: Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Oakland, CA, USA Copyright: Metropolitan Transportation Commission Description: This map was produced in Adobe Illustrator 8.01 and 10 using data licensed from Thomas Bros. Maps to show the San Francisco Bay Area transportation system including roads, highways, rail and the areas served by transit. The map was designed to go with a book called "2001 Regional Transportation Plan for the San Francisco Bay Area". GIS data from Thomas Bros. was used in conjunction with shape files generated by the MTC's own GIS department. Arcview and ArcMap were also used in the production of this map. |
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Category: Transportation Title: Riga Address Atlas Author(s): Aigars Cimoks Organization: Jana Seta Map Publishers Ltd., Riga, Latvia Copyright: Jana Seta Map Publishers Ltd. Description: The Address Atlas of Riga was created to represent all address entities in Riga City for a wide range of users. Maps were created from topographic shapefile data at 1:2000 scale, provided by ITC of Riga Municipality. The data set was processed in ArcInfo and ArcView to prepare for use in Illustrator. For map preparation Adobe Illustrator with MAPublisher 4.0 was used. The main map was created in 29 data squares acording to topographic datasheets. Separate data was also created for the maps of the downtown regions at a scale of 1:5000. Support maps were used from other maps and atlases. |
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Category: Transportation Title: Brantford Transit Ride Guide Author(s): Krystyna Brooks Organization: City of Brantford, Brantford, ON, Canada Copyright: City of Brantford Description: The Brantford Transit Ride Guide is a folding map that was produced primarily for use by City of Brantford transit users, but has essentially evolved into a "Community Map". The front side of the guide presents users with a vibrant, detailed and informative map of the city, denoting transit routes, streets, parks, churches, city attractions and related indexes. The reverse side of the guide provides a listing of transit schedules and related rider information. The City of Brantford has a well established Geographic Information System containing a extensive database of information. The street layout, land use and trail system were Arcview shapefiles taken from the City's GIS system. The transit routes were imported AutoCad files. MAPublisher was used to translate the base map into Adobe Illustrator. The final graphics and visual enhancements were done using Adobe Illustrator |
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Category: Thematic Title: West Nile Virus - York Region Bird & Mosquito Surveillance Program 2001 Author(s): Kimberly Gray Organization: The Regional Municipality of York, Newmarket, ON, Canada Copyright: The Regional Municipality of York Description: The West Nile Virus York Region Bird and the Mosquito Surveillance Program 2001/2002 map is a cartographic product created to aid in the analysis, planned response and education with respect to the West Nile virus. York Region Geomatics collected the locations of birds, mosquitoes, horses and humans through the use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS). The results were mapped and analyzed in ESRI ArcView 3.2, the data was then imported into Freehand 10 using MAPublisher 4.0 and illustrated on a orthophotography base and is accompanied by educational material on the West Nile virus and helpful tips on personal protection. |
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Category: Academic Individual Title: Central Mekong and Mun River Basins Author(s): Sebastien Caquard Organization: Dartmouth Flood Observatory, Hanover, NH, USA Copyright: Sebastien Caquard Description: This map is the first one of a series. This series represents large world wide flood events detected by satellite. This map is composed of shaded relief maps in a UTM projection. Surface water was detected by NASA's MODIS sensors which provided a standard water level for comparison purposes. Inundation limits for each month were combined and shown as one map color. The Satellite data were obtained by Dartmouth Flood Observatory staff, processed to detect water/land boundaries, geocoded to standard UTM map projections, and analyzed to produce inundation limits in a vector GIS format (MIF/MID). These vectors were then imported into Illustrator with MAPublisher, in addition to other layers (borders, rivers, towns, etc.). The maps are being continually updated from archival satellite data, and as new floods occur. Through this process we are compiling an increasingly comprehensive global atlas of flood hazards. |
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Category: Multimedia
Title: Nebraska SVG Author(s): Andy Agena, Lincoln, NE, USA Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA Copyright: Andy Agena Description: This multimedia submission uses Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG) technology to display a vector image and underlying data within a web browser. This SVG is to be embedded into a WebObjects application. The shapefiles were originally TIGER files that were 'generalized' with a 10 meter tolerance. MAPublisher 5.0 along with Adobe Illustrator 10 and Arcview were used. Extensive edits to the exported SVG were done in a text editor. In order to view this map an SVG browser plugin is required. |
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