Raster (bought) [e.g. Photoshop, PaintShopPro, Painter]
Raster (free) [e.g. GIMP]
Vector (bought) [e.g. Illustrator, Corel Draw, Xara]
Vector (free) [e.g. Inkscape]
Vector (Symbol driven) [e.g. CC, Dunjinni]
Online Generator [e.g. City Map Generator, Fractal World Generator]
Fractal Generator [e.g. Fractal Terrains]
3d modelling [e.g. Bryce, Vue Infinite, Blender]
Scanned hand drawn maps
Drawing Tablet and pen [e.g. Wacom]
Ah.... the reason for that was that when I made the poll I knew far less about mapping with software and the Guild (a very small place at the time) was concerned mainly with making fantasy maps.... so GIS didn't feature on my radar. I'd love to amend the poll, but I don't know how without deleting all the results we've got.
Well it seems that GIS software is indeed very rarely used for creative mapping. It's perhaps not the best-suited software, since it tends to be oriented towards working with real-world data than creating stuff from scratch, and it's not geared towards "artistic" maps. Proprietary GIS software is costly, and it's only in the last few years that there've been quality free offerings besides GRASS (which even by GIS standards is perhaps tricky to use).
Programs like Campaign Cartographer are I guess technically GIS software, but taking a very different approach and obviously one designed for creative mapping.
I've made occasional use of QGIS and GDAL in map making here at the guild, and I'm intermittently playing around with JTS.Originally Posted by cantab
It's not really easy to use GIS software because they are not as flexible as a vectorial or bitmap drawing would do. At the moment I'm looking how to use JOSM to create my map (don't really know if JOSM can be considered GIS software), and render it with tools designed for OpenStreetMap. I've posted a sample of what I did there: http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...d-without-name
I'd be curious to see what can be achieved with QGIS.
I am new here on the forum & looking for recommendation of software which can do aerial image stitching with geo referencing along with it, I tried Map Cruncher but found that it needs all 31000 images anchored & it does not stitch instead it tiles them correctly whereas I need 1 large image from the 31000 images.
I have video footage from which I have extracted jpeg frames (total 31000 frames)
I have the following question if any experienced cartography expert can answer them.
1. Is there a software which can do image stitching with few anchored images lets say I geo reference(anchor)1000 images out of 31000 frames, will all the images stitch around the anchored images correctly?
2.When I stitch the images rows the straight flight path appears curved, I don't know why the conventional stitching program are making it curved, Any reason for that?
I hope you can advice me the right software to do such large stitch & geo reference it correctly.
Last edited by pujarir; 08-24-2011 at 11:11 AM.
Because it's mapped to a sphere? If your images were centered on the equator, then that would be the only place it would be perfectly "straight". Unfortunately, I can't recomend any specific software. Google Earth does some of this type of stuff... but I have no idea if it can do everything you are looking for or not.
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I thought so but wanted to confirm the same to be the only reason for this curve.
Hi pujarir,
Although we have some people here who do GIS type work, most of us draw maps of imaginary places so we don't come across issues like this. While you might get an answer here, I suggest that you also post your query on www.cartotalk.com which is a bbs for professional 'real world' cartographers who might be able to help.
Thanks I will post there now hope some software can do such thing.
If your photographs are systematic - all the same size and all the same distance apart - you could create the world files - that hold the georeferencing information - automatically.
I am a geology nerd.
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