The basic workflow proposed is to store all spatial datasets in a master PostGIS database (this could also be an Esri file geodatabase), for import into the master Adobe Illustrator (AI) working files. Additionally, the Australian maps used Geoscience Australia data. This is a great resource that continues to improve. This is done by adding additional feature classes to the core datasets that will assist later in the indexing process.įor many of the Jacaranda Atlas maps we used the global open source Natural Earth Data. The indexing uses a little known (and undocumented) feature of MAPublisher to create additional data for the labels to make indexing easier.įigure 1 – Adobe Illustrator master map fileAll good maps are dependent upon good data, and it is unavoidable that to improve the speed of index creation that we need to improve the quality of the data. This blog proposes an alternative approach (one that has been tried and tested) to map production and index generation done entirely within in one production environment, namely Adobe Illustrator and MAPublisher.
Additionally, the index should provide some extra information about the feature-its location in latitude and longitude and a description of the feature (park, mountain, bay, etc) ( Irvine, 2005).Īs has been explained earlier, Spatial Vision uses a multi-step approach to the production of the atlas maps.
This can be challenging when the feature appears on more than one map. The purpose of the gazetteer index is to locate a feature on a map that places it in the most appropriate context. The task of indexing takes roughly 4 to 5 weeks of production time to generate, collate, format and check. Spatial Vision has produced the last three editions (7, 8 and 9) of the Jacaranda Atlas for John Wiley & Sons, and by far the biggest individual task is indexing the features that appear on the atlas maps. With the development of geographic information systems and relational databases, the process has been automated somewhat, though in spite of this automation process, errors can still creep in.
#Mapublisher assign text in attribute table manual
Before the advent of computers, this was an entirely manual process.
Generating complex gazetteer indexes is the bane of cartographers.
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