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Avenza's MAPublisher suite of plug-in filters for the Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia FreeHand graphics programs, solves an industry wide problem that
has plagued cartographers for years. Most cartographers have gone
through very tedious procedures to make their maps. Such processes
have included; scanning existing paper maps to get them into a
digital form in order to do enhancements and updates in a high-end
graphics environment, hand drawing maps, and importing raster
images from another environment and then tracing the image to
get it into a quality vector format. In today's high-tech world,
Avenza considers these processes archaic and unnecessarily laborious
and time consuming.
Today, more and more professional cartographers are using MAPublisher. MAPublisher provides cartographers with the ability to import raw GIS (Geographic
Information Systems) or CAD (Computer Aided Design) map files
into the high-end graphics environment with the all important
attribute databases attached. The process is simple yet powerful.
Most importantly it saves time and money. MAPublisher offers over 40 mapping tools to help cartographers complete their
maps and improve their overall quality. GIS and CAD map data is
available from various sources including Avenza, government departments
(USGS, Census, State Geological Surveys) and other private firms.
Using this data, tracing and scanning are no longer required and
map production time can be significantly reduced.
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