Posts for the month of November 2010

Open Source Mapping Workflow

This quarter some students and professors got together to reinvent/recreate/re-instigate  Cartography at UC Davis. While this isn't my first Cartography course it's been a bit more realistic in terms of applying the ideas to making maps.

Below is an example of mine, showing the possibilities of an Open Source cartographic workflow. I used  Spatialite to crunch the data,  QGIS to prep and  Inkscape to Polish.

It's a semi-ficticous map showing major air routes that cross the Arctic Circle using data from  http://OpenFlights.org and a background map from  http://NaturalEarthData.com

I'll link to the full pdf later. Creative Commons license in the footer applies.