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1. Labelled roads using Feature Text Label Labelling Your Data 6 11 GENERATING LABELS FOR AN POINT LAYER USING THE MAP TAGGER TOOL Uy a Create a new layer in your Illustrator Layers palette and name this layer Place Names Then drag this new layer into the Niagara Tutorial MAP View setting the feature type to Text Select a font and text size 10 pt recommended for the labels you want to create Click on the MAP Tagger Tool button gt in the Adobe Illustrator Tools palette to open the Tagger Tool dialog Similar to the feature text label in the previous example in the Text Dialog box you must first set the options for MAPublisher to determine the attributes that will be converted to labels The Source Layer list will show the Area Point and or Text layers currently containing selected data For each layer the Column dropdown s will be populated with the attribute structure of that layer Set the Column dropdown list to whichever column you wish to draw the labels from For this example choose Ontario Niagara Places This column contains the name of every location in the selected MAP Layer Set the text layer to output the labels to For this example choose the Place Names layer Click OK With the MAP Tagger icon click on any feature you wish to label Label Settings Layer Labels AAA Se ZZZ IP ontario niagara airports_point lt gt2. MaPiata Canada Tutorial Guide AVENZA MAPdata Canada Tutorial Guide Copyright 2007 Avenza Systems Inc All rights reserved MAPublisher and When Map Quality Matters are registered trademarks of Avenza Systems Inc Adobe Adobe Illustrator Adobe Acrobat and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Inc or its subsidiaries and may be registered in certain jurisdictions All other software product names and brands including trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners This tutorial guide the data and the software described in it are furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license The content of this manual is furnished for informational use only is subject to change without notice and should not be construed as a commitment by Avenza Systems Inc or its related companies or successors Avenza Systems Inc assumes no responsi bility or liability for any errors omissions or inaccuracies that may appear in this book Except as permit ted by such license no part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical recording or otherwise without prior written approval of Avenza Systems Inc Avenza Systems Inc 124 Merton Street Suite 400 Toronto Ontario M4S 2Z2 Canada Tel 1 416 487 5116 Fax 1 416 487 7213 Email info avenza com Web http
3. Place Names IP ontario niagara places_point GEONAME MT Place Names ID ontario niagara rail_line lt gt IT Place Names ID ontario niagara roads _line FULL_NAME T Road Names IL ontario niagara utilities_line lt gt IT Road Names A ontario niagara boundary_area lt gt ITI Place Names MEMES ES A ontario niagara water_area lt gt IT Road Names Label Settings q Label Position Line Labels Area Labels PI Upper Right o t Point Labels C Labels curve with lines of latitude All Adobe Illustrator MAP data Tutorial Final2 ai 343 96 CMYK Preview DER Pl File Edit Object Type Select Fiter Effect view Window Help No Selection Clee o na Labelling Your Data 11
4. i _4uto Scale 0 4 Source Coordinate System NADS83 CSRS Perform Coordinate System Transformation Destination No Coordinate System Specified Same as Using Datum Shift Specify 5 In the Perform Coordinate System Transformation section select the Specify button 6 The Specify Destination Coordinate System dialogue will open The destination coordinate system depends on your mapping purposes For this exercise please navigate to the following location in the dialogue Coordinate Systems gt Projected gt UTM gt NAD83 CSRS gt NAD83 CSRS UTM zone 17N Note This coordinate system will not work for all MAPdata Canada data as it is specific to a UTM Zone location For more information on UTM Zones please go to page A1 47 in the MAPublisher User Manual 7 Click OK in the Specify Destination Coordinate System dialogue and then again in the MAP View Editor The data will now be projected into NAD83 CSRS UTM zone 17N Al Adobe Illustrator Untitled 2 113 CMYK Preview Til Fie Edit Object Type Select Filter Effect View Window Help No Selection FM N stroke Stet i Brut Y sile 6 opacity 100 Die B72 AP fia Data projected in NAD83 UTM Zone 17N AY Adobe Illustrator Untitled 2 113 CMYK Preview OA l Fie Edit object Type Select Filter Effect View Window Help No Selection TS suoke E tet erush gt e styler Y opa
5. GIS data supplied in the Tutorial Data folder on your MAPdata Canada DVD or in the electronic download The data used in this guide is a sample from the MAPdata Canada pack age Importing MAP Data 1 1 IMPORTING MAPDATA CANADA FILES Start by creating a new Illustrator page in portrait orientation lettersize Select File gt Import Map Data gt Simple to open the MAPublisher Simple Import dialog Select ESRI Shape from the Format dropdown Click the Browse button to open the data source browser Locate and select all the data in the MAPdata Canada Sample folder and click Open ee ls i Simple Import Format ESRI Shape v Settings OK Dataset anada Master MapData Canada sample ontario niagara roads shp lid Encoding System v Source Coordinate System No Coordinate System Specified same as 6 Note the Source Coordinate System is currently undetected This can be set at this point in the process or after the data has been imported To set the Source Coordinate System in the Import dialogue click the Specify button di The Specify Source Coordinate System dialogue will open To set the correct coordinate system for MAPdata Canada please navigate to the following location in the dialogue Coordinate Systems gt Geodetic gt North America gt Canada gt NAD83 CSRS Specify Source Coordinate System Data Source C Documents and Settings All Users Applicatio
6. R CLASS DON INTA albe O j av ER EN Gis 21 AO al oh Wie a T ail _ ES X A N y Applying Stylesheets to Your Data 3 11 APPLYING STYLESHEETS TO YOUR RAILWAYS l Click on the Create MAP Stylesheet button and call it Railway with a feature type of Line To stylize data in this stylesheet drag the ontario niagara rail line layer into the Railway stylesheet and double click on the Railway Stylesheet 3 Click on the add button to add a rule This rule will be called Railway and it will use the Rail Lines Graphic Style 4 Click on the advanced expression option and then select the expression drop down and the browse button 5 In the Edit Expression window double click on the Owner followed by In the description window select Display Unique Values and select CN 6 Following this expression click on OR Finish the expression to match the following OWNER CN OR OWNER CPR OR OWNER NS re Click OK in the Edit Expression window and in the Edit Stylesheet window 3 iii APPLYING STYLESHEETS TO YOUR UTILITIES l Click on the Create MAP Stylesheet button and call it Utilities with a feature type of Line 2 To stylize data in this stylesheet drag the ontario niagara utility line layer into the Utilities stylesheet and double clic
7. The Column dropdown will be populated with the attribute structure of that layer Set the Column dropdown list to whichever column you wish to draw the labels from For this example choose Full Name This column contains the name of every road in the selected MAP Layer Set the text layer to output the labels to For this example choose the Road Names layer In label setting we can specify label preferences such as label position alignment to lines of latitude minimum font sizes and horizontal scaling to best place labels within polygons and paths MAPublisher will place Line labels intelligently depending on the curvature and length of the line string Click the Line Labels button on the left to assign MAPublisher Line Label Settings The Label Type option will allow you to specify how you would like the text placed on the Map The Follow line option will place text to the orientation of the line and the Don t follow line option will place all text horizontally on the page The Distance from Start option will allow you to specify where along the line you would like the label Lets choose Auto and let MAPublisher place the text at the midpoint for straight lines For curved lines this will find the smoothest portion of the curved line closed to the midpoint By enabling Flip upside down labels MAPublisher will automatically orient labels correctly so lets leave this option enabled By checking the Line Smoothing option MAPublisher
8. ay style from the style dropdown list Click on the advanced expression option and then select the expression drop down and the browse button In the Edit Expression window click on the expand Expression Components and then double click on the Class attribute column heading found in the Objects list followed by which is a button located on the top of the dialogue In the description window select Display Unique Values and select HT The expression should look like this CLASS HT Click OK in the Edit Expression window Now add rule 2 and call it Streets using the Graphic Style Streets In the Edit Expression window double click on the Class attribute column heading followed by In the description window select Display Unique Values and select ST Following this expression click on OR Finish the expression to match the following CLASS ST OR CLASS BT OR CLASS CON This expression says that we want to stylize streets bridges amp tunnels and connector roads Click OK in the Edit Expression window and in the Edit Stylesheet window This will apply the select graphic styles to the requested attributes Roads before MAP Stylesheets Roads after MAP Stylesheets M Adobe Illustrator MAP data Tutorial Final2 ai 399 43 CMYKIPreview SFR ER Obeu Type Seku Fher Effect Vew Window Help ee CHOO CULO Ol CLASS ST OR CLASS BT O
9. city 10 a 7 GIRA Pa EIN delat Y 13 ve Never Savi red LES gt Data unprojected in NAD83 Lat Long Projecting Your Data Applying Stylesheets to Your Data 3 1 APPLYING STYLESHEETS TO YOUR ROADS DI 10 dl 12 13 14 The Graphic Styles needed for this exercise will have to be loaded before the next step To do this go to Window gt Graphic Styles Now go to Open Graphic Style Library gt Other Library Browse to the Tutorial folder and select the graphic styles ai file When the new graphic style palette with the imported styles opens shift select them all and drag them into the Graphic Styles palette Go to Window gt MAPublisher Palettes gt MAP Stylesheets to open the Stylesheets palette Click on the Create New MAP Stylesheet button at the bottom of the palette and call it Road with a feature type of Line To stylize data in this stylesheet drag the ontario niagara roads j_ line layer into the Road stylesheet and double click on the Road Stylesheet MAP Stylesheets x A ontario niagara Waker area 1 Map Stylesheet El EN m Click on the Add button to add the first rule Change the name of this rule from Rule 1 to Highway Use the Highway Graphic Style that was added in step 1 as the style for this rule Select the Highw
10. e on the bottom the line layers are in the middle and the points are at the top of the illustrator layer hierarchy 11 Notice that there is one new data layer in the Illustrator Layers palette for every imported file There is also a MAP Views palette under which all the imported data layers reside 12 To open the MAP View Palette go to Window gt MAPublisher Palettes gt MAP Views See more on MAP Views on page 53 in the MAPublisher User Manual or contact Avenza Support http www avenza com support html 4 Importing MAP Data Projecting Your Data 2 i COORDINATE SYSTEM TRANSFORMATIONS li The data has now been imported and it is ready to be projected To do this double click on the MAP View that holds the newly imported data and your MAP View Editor will open Le Rename your MAP View by entering Niagara Tutorial di In the MAP View Editor there is a section for the Source Coordinate System where you can specify or change it This can be used if the coordinate system was not set when importing the data or it needs to be changed 4 To project your data from its current unprojected coordinate system NAD83 CSRS to a projected coordinate system enable the Perform Coordinate System Transformation checkbox Edit ontario niagara roads Name ontario niagara roads C View Anchors Data Extents LL Corner Scale Angle x 0 006938 i 1 86559 2 az Y 0 007012
11. ise selection filters are used to locate the specific roads to label You may select based on groups such as road class or in this case via individual names Click on the Browse button then click the dropdown button to expand the Expression Components Double click on the FULL NAME column heading in the Objects under ontario niagara roads so that it is entered into the expression entry box Click on the button and select Display Unique Values in the description section Select 20 Hwy from the list Now select the OR function and repeat step 6 3x by inserting Concession 2 Rd Chippawa Creek Rd and Sodom Rd for the road name The finished expression should read as follows FULL NAME Concession 2 Rd OR FULL NAME 20 Hwy OR FULL NAME Sodom Rd OR FULL NAME Chippawa Creek Rd Click OK twice The requested roads should now be selected To re select the data click on the Apply as New Selection button to perform the selection Go to Filter gt MAP Legend gt Feature Text Label In the Feature Text Label Dialog box you must first set the options for MAPublisher to determine the attributes that will be converted to labels The Source Layer list will show the Line layer containing the selected data Labelling Your Data 9 6 i GENERATING LABELS FOR AN LINE LAYER USING FEATURE TEXT LABEL Con t 12 13 14 ES 16 17 18 19 20 DM 22 25 10
12. k on the Utility Stylesheet di Click on the add button to add a rule This rule will be called Utility and it will use the Utility Lines Graphic Style 4 In simple expression mode click on the expression drop down menu and create the following expression DESCRIPTIO Power Transmission Line 5 Click OK in the Edit Stylesheet window Edit Utilities vane unter ID Style Rules Apply An Styl E i Scal ame yle pression cale Y Utilities Simple Expression DESCRIPTIO gt A Power Transmission Line Showing 1 value Expression Mode Simple Advanced 3 iv APPLYING STYLESHEETS TO YOUR PLACES l The Symbols needed for this exercise will have to be loaded before the next step To do this go to Window gt Symbols Now go to Open Symbol Library gt Other Library Browse to the Tutorial folder and select the symbols ai file l Click on the Create MAP Stylesheet button and call it Places with a feature type of Point To stylize data in this stylesheet drag the ontario niagara places point layer into the Places stylesheet and double click on the Places Stylesheet 3 Click on the add button to add a rule This rule will be called Places and it will use the Places Graphic Style 4 Click on the expression drop down menu and create the following expression REGIONNAME Ontario di Modify the scale to be 150 6 Click OK in the Edit Stylesheet window Applying Stylesheets to Yo
13. n Data Avenza MAPublisher 7 avenza ml Category l Name Horizontal Datum Point Style Units Envelope EPSG Code EA Coordinate Systems ATS77 Average Terrestrial System 1977 Degrees deg Canada Maritime Provinces 4122 All NAD27 76 North American Datum 1927 1976 Degrees deg Canada Ontario 4608 Recent NAD2 7 CGQ7 North American Datum 1927 CG077 Degrees deg Canada Quebec 4609 Search NAD83 CSRS NAD83 Canadian Spatial Reference System Degrees deg Canada 5 of 60 deg N 4617 Geodetic NAD83 CSRS NAD83 Canadian Spatial Reference System Degrees deg Canada 5 of 60 deg N 4955 All Recent E Search Aftica Antarctica Asia DEPRECATED Europe Misc EPSG North America Canada Caribbean Greenland United States Oceania lt Search Category Canada Find MAPublisher Tip The source coordinate system is the coordinate system associated with the data in its current state This information is derived either from the data itself or may be obtained and assigned manually Always obtain this information from your data provider 8 Click OK in the Specify Source Coordinate System dialogue to confirm the coordinate system 9 Click OK in the Simple Import dialogue to import the data The Simple Import dialog closes and the selected map files are imported The map has been imported to automatically fit to the size of the page 10 Open the layers palette and ensure that the area layers ar
14. ted in Step 1 The MAP Stylesheet legend will be placed in the lower left corner of your page This object can be ungrouped and modified if needed To do this select the object and ungroup twice FOR a a MAP Stylesheets x oz New MAP Stylesheet P Airport Duplicate Utilities Db Edit Utilities P Places CP Create MAP Stylesheet legend o L ontario niagara rail_line F Roads E A ontario miagara boundary_area A ontario niagara waber_area Road Hames 5 MAP Stylesheets Fy n Applying Graphic Styles to Your Data S li PRODUCING A SCALE BAR N 2OLIDUAL 13 14 leg 16 17 18 Create a new Illustrator layer and rename it Scale Bar In the MAP Views palette drag the Scale Bar layer to the Niagara Tutorial MAP View setting the Feature Type to Legend Set your desired font and font size using the Illustrator Character palette For this example use an 8 pt font Open the MAPublisher Scale Bar filter by going to Filter gt MAP Legend gt Scale Bar Choose a desired scale bar style using the Previous and Next buttons Set the Advanced Options as follows Set the Units dropdown list to Kilometer Enter a Label Interval of 5 kilometers Set the Number of Labeled Intervals to 5 Set the Number of Intervals to Subdivide to 7 and the Number of Sub intervals to 5 These settings will create a scale bar that represents a total distance of 25 km has 4 main cells each represen
15. ting 5 km and where the first cell is further divided into 5 smaller cells Set the Label Options as follows Select the Display Scale value as above Select the Display page to map units ratio checkbox Set the Page Units dropdown list to Centimeter Select the Display units to right of last interval label checkbox These settings will create a scale bar with caption labels placed accordingly Click OK to create the scale bar The Scale Bar will be placed on the page according to the defined settings Labelling Your Data 6 i GENERATING LABELS FOR AN LINE LAYER USING FEATURE TEXT LABEL 10 11 Create a new layer in your Illustrator Layers palette and name this layer Road Names Then drag this new layer into the Niagara Tutorial MAP View setting the feature type to Text Select a font and text size 8 pt recommended for the labels you want to create using the Illustrator Character Palette Using the MAP Selection Filter select the roads to label A selection filter 1s used to select data based on an attribute Making sure the ontario niagara roads layer is selected go to Window gt MAPublisher Palettes gt Selection Filters to open the MAP Selection Filters dialog Click on the Create New Selection Filter button at the bottom of the palette This filter can be named Roads in the Name entry box Data does NOT have to be selected using selection filters you may use manual selection as well For the purpose of this exerc
16. ur Data 7 8 3 v APPLYING STYLESHEETS TO YOUR AIRPORTS Click on the Create MAP Stylesheet button and call it Airport with a feature type of Point To stylize data in stylesheets drag the ontario niagara airports point layer into the Airport stylesheet and double click on the Airport Stylesheet 3 Click on the add button to add a rule This rule will be called Airport and it will use the Airports Graphic Style Click on the expression drop down menu and create the following expression CODE CSYN 5 Modify the scale to be 75 6 Click OK in the Edit Stylesheet window Applying Graphic Styles to Your Data 4 1 APPLYING GRAPHIC STYLES WATER AND BOUNDARY Select the entire water layer and ensure that you have selected the fill in the Illustrator tool bar Open the swatch palette and select a blue colour for the fill Select the stroke in the Illustrator tool bar and select none so there is no stroke Perform the same task for the boundary layer replacing the blue with a light brown al dl dei ae Creating Legends and Scale Bars 5 i PRODUCING A LEGEND FROM YOUR STYLESHEETS Create a new layer called Legend Drag this layer into your MAP View and assign it a feature type of Legend Select one of the Stylesheets in order to export to a legend Click on the options button in the MAP Stylesheets palette and select Create MAP Stylesheet Legend Select the target layer as the Legend layer crea
17. will create a smoothed path for each text object in the selected Text layer and place the text along this path at the specified Offset value The labels can then be dragged and positioned at any position along a line For this example leave it unchecked because the streets are very linear The Label Position option allows you to select the vertical position of the labels relative to the line Three options are available for the vertical positioning of text labels Baseline Descender and Center Select Descender to place the labels on top of the generated text path Labels can be modified if they exceed the length of the line in the current default font size First check the Adjust label 1f larger than line option to activate the label rules The order for the rules can be changed by clicking on the rule and then pressing the Up or Down button Checking the Reduce font size option will allow you to reduce the size of the font to a specified minimum size in points We can select 3 for this exercise Checking Reduce horizontal scaling will allow text to be scaled down horizontally by the percentage specified Leave this at 50 Click OK The roads that were previously selected have now been labeled AY Adobe Illustrator MAP data Tutorial Final2 ai 343 96 CMYK Preview Di Fie Edit Object Type Select Filter Effect View Window Help No Selection M a Stroke ipt gt Brush M Style N Opacity 100 gt 44
18. www avenza com Support Tel 1 416 487 6442 Support email support avenza com December 2007 Welcome Avenza welcomes you to mapmaking in the 21st century Combined with Adobe Illustrator MAPublisher has revolutionized the art of mapmaking by allowing spatial data files to be used to create maps inside a vector graphics program MAPublisher allows all your cartograph ic tasks to be performed where they should be done in a powerful graphics environment MAPdata Canada allows users of MAPublisher to create projects using data from all the Canadian provinces and territories This tutorial manual assumes that the user is familiar with Adobe Illustrator and has at least a basic understanding of geographic information systems GIS terminology and concepts The exercises in this manual should be used in conjunction with the MAPublisher 7 User Guide and Adobe Illustrator CS2 CS3 however the datas itself may be used with any version of MAPublisher and either Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand By following these tutorials you will learn how to import reproject and stylize the MAPdata Canada data This will show the user the basics of creating maps using MAPublisher in Adobe Illustrator Together MAPublisher and Adobe Illustrator will give you a totally integrated cartographic design software system with graphics tools and geographic functions present in the same work environment TUTORIAL DATA All the exercises in this guide will use
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