Avenza Systems Inc. - In the News

Avenza's President Interviewed by VerySpatial

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:42:37 -0400

July 13, 2008 - Ted Florence, President of Avenza Systems Inc., was interviewed by Jesse Rouse of VerySpatial, an online geospatial news site and information portal, during which he discussed Avenza's current software and data products and plans for an exciting new release centering on Adobe Flash.

All the details of Ted's interview and VerySpatial podcast #156 can be found on the VerySpatial website at www.veryspatial.com.

MAPublisher featured in Directions Magazine article

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 16:19:05 -0400

August, 2005. In this second segment of his online series, From GIS to the Desktop, author Steve Gordon of Cartagram LLC, further discusses using Adobe Illustrator and MAPublisher to create great looking map products.

"My first article in this series, From GIS to the Desktop, explored the visual and production value of taking GIS data and maps to desktop software like Adobe Illustrator. The visual effects you can elicit in desktop software will make the trip rewarding – your maps will communicate more effectively, your clients will be more pleased with the richness of your proofs and prints, your files will be more portable, and you may discover new ways of symbolizing map data along the way. How do you travel from GIS to the desktop, quickly and affordably? [...] you import, edit and perform various GIS operations on your data before exporting files in a GIS format that you then import into Illustrator as data. This packs your attributes and georeferencing information in case you need to access or manipulate it using the Avenza MAPublisher plug-ins during final map production..."

MAPublisher featured in Society for News Design Journal article

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:11:53 -0400

Summer, 2005. In this quarter's Society for News Design Journal, Catherine Farley, deputy graphics director at the Toronto Star newspaper, discussed how the newspaper's graphics department used MAPublisher and Adobe Illustrator to quickly and easily produce maps for the 2004 US and Canadian federal elections.

"We knew we were on to something when election night editors were using our proofs as road maps for their stories.....We also knew we would not have time to color the map manually so we used MAPublisher to automate the process."