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In a 2013 ad for Ford, a 1950s atlas was used to talk about an engineer who grew up on two continents. Ford’s ad does not use a contemporary map. Instead the overly dramatic images from over 50 years ago…
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Vectors from Google
Importing points from Google Earth to Adobe Illustrator brings an added bonus: high-resolution vector icons make the journey, too. In the life of a busy cartographer, Google Earth is a handy tool. Google Earth is an effective environment to map…
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Google Earth as the Crow Flies
Google Earth can make creating radius rings on a map quick and easy. The trick is using the Show Ruler tool. When you’ve finished, you can import the rings into Adobe Illustrator or into Google Maps where you can share…
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From Excel to Google Maps
An address map is a valuable way of representing points of data. We’ve been asked to create membership maps for organizations. A request by a church to make a map showing church member addresses inspired us to write up this…
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Google Maps as the Crow Flies
Google Maps has a scale bar at the bottom of the map. When you need to measure a distance horizontally, the scale works well. But at another angle, you’ll have a challenge using it. Instead, easily create radius rings around…
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Pressing a WordPress Map into Service
WordPress is the most popular CMS for building websites. Some 43% of all websites are made with WordPress. The typical WordPress map is a Google map. But it doesn’t have to be. Why not display a standard Google map on…