Cartographers give GeoConcept thumbs up

At a London cartographic seminar, users explained how GeoConcept’s object oriented data model had real advantages for the cartographer.

Complete control over the appearance is provided using the easy display menu to fill and label objects on the map. Speaker Andrew Overton, of Overview Mapping, explained how he had quickly re-coloured a raster map to a client’s corporate colours.

Styles and colours can be driven by fields against each object or applied globally to whole class or subclass of objects.

Creating new objects is fast and precise. GeoConcept enables the user to specify which objects the new lines / polygons snap to. Importantly you can snap to many different types of object at the same time, e.g. rivers, neighbouring polygons and main roads bounding the new object on each side.

There is also full control over labeling of roads. Text can be placed anywhere along the link, aligned along the road at a specified offset and automatically repositioned to ensure labels do not overlap and that they are completely within the page or screen view.

The maps can be printed as large as wall poster size, in less time and with less interference using the latest batch functionality. One client had 1,000s of individual territory maps created using the batch facility. Vital pagination control is provided to ensure characters on raster maps are not cut off the end of the page, so characters from road names are not missing between pages. Output can be created in a range of formats including eps or pdfs.