From GIS data sets to Cartographic Presentation

A mapmaker holds different versions of a map in his computer memory, and views them as necessary on the screen. From these different pictures, he can consider at best 2-3 of them; this is enough to have a new knowledge from the comparison, or to discover differences. Essential advantages of working on the screen, are that we can get separate details out, on which to them underlying data can fall back or carry out changes directly in the graphic or in the data. It is also possible to vary the picture construction in manifold of ways or reshape the whole symbolisation.

Personal computers are more and more involved as publishing systems that produce maps, but also newspapers and magazines. In this lesson, we will give you an overview of the concepts, tools and processes that are known to print maps and other graphics well.