Quick question..

[Ramah]

Was it this post? I quickly just browsed around so it might not be!

http://www.cartographersguild.com/re...rminology.html

This isn't the exact thread I was looking for but I'd never seen it and it is very informative so thanks a lot for the link.

I have a feeling the thread I was looking for was a tutorial, probably on making a border. It described the correct terminology and positioning of stuff there.

What I am actually wanting to know is the correct term for the patterned bar that runs around the outside of many maps. I've always known it as the graticule, but that seems to be the correct term for the grid to mark off longtitude and latitude. Now, as the bar usually lines up with those lines does it follow that it is called a "graticule bar" or "graticule edge" or something?

Thanks in advance for anyone that can help.

[Ramah]

Ok, found it myself. It was actually this tutorial by Arsheesh that I was thinking of...

http://www.cartographersguild.com/tu...ders-gimp.html

The bar is a Neatline. I had it wrong and thought a Neatline was just basically a line inside the border area. Duh.