Yes, and those carto types have workflows that are geared towards how ESRI spits out ai/vector graphics. From my experience, it's much easier to get open source GIS involved through map/database server work or data processing/analysis rather then cartography. I end up doing much of the cartography myself, which I'm sure is NOT suitable for any type of atlas!
I agree with what people are saying about adding the metadata, processing steps, etc... making this product "better" than the ESRI Map Books. Only if you can get enough contributions and it makes sense though. In many cases, for very nice looking maps, the person doing the GIS work may not be the same as the one doing the carto work. And sometimes those processing steps are too complicated or convoluted to write down neatly. It might be obvious but the more you require/add to the atlas, the more effort required by the contributors. - John *********************************************** John Callahan, Research Scientist Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware URL: http://www.dgs.udel.edu ************************************************* On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Barry Rowlingson < b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 2:26 PM, julia harrell <julia.harr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > This would make it a superior product - even if > > some of the maps aren't quite as 'pretty' as those in the ESRI map > > book :) > > Why wouldn't they be as pretty? You're exhibiting the very prejudice > I'd like to exterminate! :) > > Actually it's probably an effect caused by weight-of-numbers and > there being more professional carto types using commercial software. > > Barry > > -- > blog: http://geospaced.blogspot.com/ > web: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings > web: http://www.rowlingson.com/ > twitter: http://twitter.com/geospacedman > pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacedman > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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