Quote Originally Posted by leonid
Hi, gang! I'm wondering if any carto-philes out there have experience with real-world urban cartography software
It really depends on what you want to depict.

Terrain/contour maps from either real world measurement or DEMs use very different tools then say, city street mapping, or utility (sewer/water) mapping. What specific applications are you interested in? (The company I work for mainly uses ArcGIS for high end GIS work as well...)

Software tools are only the latest evolution of the pencil and pen

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