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3025 Inner Sphere Map
« on: January 23, 2012, 05:08:40 PM »
In the first of my new mapping installments, we revist 3025, using VoltAmpere and Bad_Syntax data, which is more accurate than the data I was using before.

Any comments or corrections for the map, please post below.
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Re: 3025 Inner Sphere Map
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2012, 05:14:25 PM »
As promised in the create your own map threads, here are the Shapefiles used for creating the 3025 map.  For those using ArcGIS, I can also provide the colour and symbol files for use in your symbol library.
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Re: 3025 Inner Sphere Map
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2012, 05:22:34 PM »
I noticed you're including original and changed names or worlds/systems. Blantleff in the Circinus Federation used to be part of the Lothian League (under the name Dersidatz if I remember correctly) I'll see if I can dig up the reference when I get home. Its weird to see the slightly altered borders due to the correct system positions (especially the CC/FWL border, that's one that has stayed pretty constant from 3025-3085 and now with the correct position of a few worlds (most notably Goodna it seems) the border looks a little wavy. Not bad just wierd, its actually more realistic looking imo. As always your maps are awesome and I will enjoy tinkerning around with the files to make my own (I'd love to do that!!) when I get home.

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Re: 3025 Inner Sphere Map
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2012, 05:35:16 PM »
When creating the borders I made a conscious choice to try an keep to the mid-point between systems held by different powers, which makes a slightly different look to some of the "traditional" borders.

The addition of the dual names for some systems was provided by Volt and Bad_Syntax, I thought it was a nice touch and kept it, as editing it out for each era would be a right, bloody pain.
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Re: 3025 Inner Sphere Map
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2012, 06:10:05 PM »
Quick question. Are these PDFs searchable?

That would be a negative Ghostrider.

 
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Re: 3025 Inner Sphere Map
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2012, 06:24:21 PM »
I have no idea. I created them in ArcGIS, exported to TIFF, as exporting to PDF creates rubbish and then convert to PDF in acrobat.

after trying a seach in acrobat, no results, so no.  I would have to OCR each map. I'll give it a try and see what happens.

Failed...OCR at 300dpi is not the best and picked up zero worlds.  I would need to export at 600DPI from ArcGIS to TIFF, but that gives a 800MB file, with little real improvement for the file and an 8MB map once it is converted.
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Re: 3025 Inner Sphere Map
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2012, 06:48:07 PM »
Yeah, that sucks.
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Re: 3025 Inner Sphere Map
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2012, 07:04:48 PM »
BN,

On what other formats aside from TIFF can you export your maps?
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Re: 3025 Inner Sphere Map
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2012, 07:15:28 PM »
EMF
EPS
AI
PDF
SVG
BMP
JPG
PNG
TIF
GIF
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Re: 3025 Inner Sphere Map
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2012, 08:37:54 AM »
hmm you think you could toss me a .ai and .pdf export of a section of a map? I'll see how we can do a searchable file without bloating the file size.
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Re: 3025 Inner Sphere Map
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2012, 04:21:40 PM »
For some reason the direct to pdf export always leaves out layers.  I will try an AI export, whatever that is.
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Re: 3025 Inner Sphere Map
« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2012, 07:45:54 PM »
i think it's adobe illustrator. and If I'm right, I might be able do do an AI > PDF export tht retains the text layers and keeps the image as vectors. I don't know about filesize though, but I have some ideas on how to get around that.
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Re: 3025 Inner Sphere Map
« Reply #12 on: January 29, 2012, 08:28:00 PM »
I'll try an export to AI and direct conversion to PDf from there. I also have inkscape so I can try and have a play there as well.

As it stands, exports to TIF are currently 200+MB.
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Re: 3025 Inner Sphere Map
« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2012, 08:59:49 PM »
It's an Illustrator File.
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Re: 3025 Inner Sphere Map
« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2012, 01:46:43 PM »
If you go from AI to PDF, you should be able to search in the files.
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