Patterns and Texture Map Styles Included with Ortelius
Ortelius includes dozens of predesigned patterns & textures, including hatches, screen tones, and image fills. To edit built-in styles, Clone a style and customize it to suit your project. These...
View ArticleMap Text Styles Included with Ortelius
Ortelius’ Styles & Symbols palette includes a series of text styles designed for map text, titles and labels perfect for cartography and map design. Text styles are formatted to provide a...
View ArticleRoads and Highways Map Styles & Symbols Included with Ortelius
Ortelius delivers with dozens of roads and highways custom map styles, including cased roads of varying widths, bike lanes, custom bridge overlay styles, and UK style road classification styles. To...
View ArticleHighway Sign & Shield Map Symbols Included with Ortelius
Ortelius delivers with dozens of international road and highway map signs and shields. When these special symbols are snapped to tracks that have route number attributes defined, the road shields are...
View ArticleUK-Style Map Styles & Symbols Included with Ortelius
The Ortelius collection includes over 100 map styles and symbols based on thoughtfully designed Ordnance Survey (OS) maps. To edit built-in styles, Clone a style and customize it to suit your project....
View ArticleWater Map Styles Included with Ortelius
The Ortelius collection includes water features map styles, including man-made features such as pools and spas, rivers, streams, oceans, and marshes. To edit built-in styles, Clone a style and...
View ArticleRandomized Patterns Make Interesting Map Fills
Randomized patterns can add texture and variety to an otherwise flat map. This is an especially good effect for representing features with naturally occurring randomness, such as ground-cover and...
View ArticleDesigning Tapered Rivers with Flowing Styles
Ortelius has always had great tools to create smooth meandering rivers & streams. Now they can look even better with naturally tapering ends. We’ve added an expert Tapered Stroke component to the...
View ArticleWritten History Needs Maps
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it, and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. – From the...
View ArticleThe Walker Party, The Revised Story Mapped with Ortelius
http://www.mapdiva.com/portfolio-item/the-walker-party-the-revised-story/ For over 150 years the accepted story about the Walker party’s 1861-1863 expedition through the Southwest was based on a...
View Article126 Classic Hills & Mountains Map Symbols
Featuring an awesome groups of hill and mountain map symbols – 126 in all – the Hills & Mountains Map Symbol Collection includes an astonishing array of editable vector map symbols modeled after...
View ArticleNATO Equipment Map Symbol Collection
The NATO Equipment Map Symbol Collection is comprised of 93 different scaleable vector graphics, including silhouette icons of artillery, explosive devices, helicopters, equipment, personal weapons....
View ArticleGet Ortelius Software Updates
Install Ortelius Updates You may get the update automatically, or you may need to update manually.Open Ortelius and click Ortelius > Check For Updates… in the main menu. A dialog appears letting...
View ArticleLayer Transparency
Changing the opacity of all features on an Ortelius’ Mapping Layer is now easy as pie. Unlike the master opacity of individual styles, changing a Mapping Layer’s master opacity affects all features and...
View ArticleMap Text Styles Included with Ortelius
Ortelius’ Styles & Symbols palette includes a series of text styles designed for map text, titles and labels perfect for cartography and map design. Text styles are formatted to provide a...
View ArticleHow Artboard Is Influencing Our 2nd Generation Products
In 2008, Mapdiva delivered Ortelius – the creative app for custom map design. Our drawing engine proved so rich and powerful that many of our customers encouraged us to build a general purpose graphic...
View ArticleImport SVG
SVG is a file format for scalable vector graphics. SVG 1.1 files may be opened by Ortelius directly from the Finder window, or imported through the Image Browser. SVG files are converted into Ortelius...
View ArticleTaking Pictures with Facetime Camera
Use your computer’s camera to take and add pictures directly to your drawing canvas. Take a Picture Choose ‘File > Take Picture…’ from the main menu to open the Picture Taker window. Click the...
View ArticleOpen or Import Photos, iPhoto & Photo Booth
Images in Photos, iPhoto and Photo Booth may be opened as a new drawing file, and/or added to an existing drawing. Import Photos, iPhoto & Photo Booth to Existing Drawing Choose ‘File > Open…’...
View ArticleScale Bar
In Ortelius, a scale bar is a dynamic object, and will adjust based on changes in scale from the Map Size & Units window. The scale bar is automatically calibrated based on the drawing scale...
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