ASK & DISCUSS INDEX

11 years, 12 months ago - Eric Jukes

You don't mention the country, city, town or what, whether it is 'political' or 'physical' Ie whether it is borders, or administration areas, or, indeed, as another Shooter has commented, what scale, a continent or a single building. If UK then the best source is Ordnance Survey. Try their website. However, I suspect it will cost! Subscriptions for their highest quality maps can be half a million pounds per year and upwards. Appreciate you are not looking at daily usage of maps, for which, incidentally you would need specialised mapping software such as ArcGIS or MapInfo, but suspect it is expensive for one-offs. Ordnance Survey do now produce some open source maps now which are raster (bmp) and not vector which the high quality ones are, but you would need to be the judge of quality.

11 years, 12 months ago - Derek Hunter

I need to know two things before I can help you:

1) What area are do you want to display? i.e. the world, a country, a city, a town, a street? A single building?
2) What information do you want to display? Elevation, ground cover, communications - i.e. roads. Or maybe political / social information.

11 years, 12 months ago - Eric C Y Young

Just trace round one in Adobe Illustrator, label and size to taste and export in whatever graphics format you desire.

11 years, 12 months ago - Louise Orton

Thanks all, broadcaster is sorting the map. But advice all useful for the future. Thanks for the Dad's Army clip. Now that is a good use of a map!

11 years, 12 months ago - SP User

Be very careful. Almost all maps are COPYRIGHT.

11 years, 12 months ago - Louise Orton

Am prepared to pay. Just can't seem to find a good site.

11 years, 12 months ago - Derek Hunter

Hi Louise - If you point a graphic artist at this site http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/all-free-vector-world-maps-ai-eps-svg/ they should be able to sort something out for you.

Is it a specific country you are interested in or a number of individual countries?

And I agree with Marlom about the information density. I think the "Dad's Army" opening gets it just about right!

11 years, 12 months ago - Marlom Tander

Maps tend to be very information dense, and I don't think I've ever seen a map on a TV screen that was an effective communications tool, UNLESS it had been simplified to the basic information the program needed.

Which is a fine as an excuse as any to links to the Dad's Army opening :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEDWDAMRBeU

Do you really need a map, or do you need a graphic that happens to show mappish info? If the latter, then any decent graphic artist should be able to help.

11 years, 12 months ago - Louise Orton

Just want to show a country and borders.