Cartographica offers a range of preset projections with the very traditional projections such as Mercator or WGS. The projection can be adjusted for the map or for the layer. See the data information on a aerial photography background or on an Open Street Map background depending what the criteria is. This is brilliant, because with just a few clicks the data can be put in context and read in a very different way. Through the WMS any other map can be used in the background. Bing maps come as street map or as satellite imagery. Cartographica currently offers the option of Bing maps or Open Street Map. To combine additional data simply import other sources or add a live map. The street information as well as geographic features are visible and annotated. In this view we have zoomed into the South East of England. Image by urbaTick / Screen shot showing the imported data with a Open Street Map underlay. The points start to make sense as to how they are located in a spatail context. Image by urbaTick / Screen shot showing the imported data with a Bing Map aerial imagery underlay for the whole of England. The next steps will be to either combine it with other data or information, to adjust the projection, to manipulate or to analyse the data. Once the data is loaded it will be displayed on screen. Also this feature can be used to geocode addresses if you are working with address data. It is also possible to use this import option to extend on existing content, by matching two columns to exiting fields and Cartographica will import the additional data to the corresponding data. If you are working with a external data source trying to map some information that comes in a table for example the dialogue will guide you through the steps to identify the different columns, where you have to indicate the location columns and the value columns. The data does not have geo coordinates so we are using the geocoding feature of Cartographica to locate the data via the address given in the csv file. Here we are importing the Primary school league tables as found on the Guardian Data Blog. Image by urbaTick / Screen shot showing the import dialog for tabular data. To connect to other services and devices there is data base import as well as direct GPS import or WMS (Web Map Service) map data. It can be also either a vector, a raster or a table format. There are a number of formats directly supported, such as shapefiles and kml. Getting data into the Cartographica GIS platform is possible in multiple ways. Find part one with a general introduction HERE. #Cartographica macThis is part two of a review and introduction to Cartographica, a Mac based GIS software. Only very few applications run on either cross platform or exclusively on the Mac. #Cartographica windowsTraditionally Geographic Information System (GIS) have been exclusively run on the Windows platform. Read reviews from amazon customers, SF Weekly, or the American Surveyor Magazine.Cartographica – GIS for the Mac Platform – 02 Released from ESRI Press, the publishing arm of the world's leading computer mapping company, Cartographica Extraordinaire: The Historical Map Transformed allows readers to witness an evolution in map-making as new lands are explored and the art and science of cartography progresses from early surveyor's rods and chains to modern satellite imagery.Ĭartographica Extraordinaire: The Historical Map Transformed is now shipping and is available for purchase at. From a 1736 atlas depicting California as an island to a Civil War bird's eye view of military positions on the southeastern seaboard, the stunning reproductions from the renowned David Rumsey Map Collection and text illuminate early American history from a uniquely geographic perspective. In Cartographica Extraordinaire, maps serve as time machines, transporting us hundreds of years into the past and showing us extraordinary views of history through the eyes of the mapmakers of the time. Surveying our past—old maps and new technology combine to provide an extraordinary view of American history in a new book by David Rumsey and Edith M. Book cover for Cartographica Extraordinaire
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