This is a tall order, but I thought it might be worth asking. I’m working on a project where I need to basically fake a large urban map: streets, parks, rivers, etc. Essentially I’d like to wind up with something that looks like Google Maps at one or two stages short of maximum zoom. I … Read more
I’m drawing maps in Illustrator. Our way of depicting divided highways is parallel lines with a fill. Here is an example: The way I did this was a 1 point yellow stroke, command c, command f, send to back, explained stroke to 2 points and make black. These are a pain to make and edit. … Read more
Here’s a decent example of what I’m trying to do – a print version of something like this: I need to pick-and-choose which crossroads and street labels to show, add custom icons, plot the actual race route, and of course modify the color scheme. I’m trying to avoid spending hours and hours of manually tracing … Read more
So, I’ve started creating 3D model for my small application. Im using libgdx. I firstly created a model in 3Ds Max: Then, I did this ‘render to texture thing‘ with those settings: I also used channel 2, like in this video That is what it rendered: I checked if everything was ok with the texture, … Read more
I am doing some freelance work for a client and she has asked me to illustrate a map visualising Africa and Europe. She is including the illustration into a book she is writing in the hopes of eventually publishing it. Is it okay if i base my illustration on open source maps or do i … Read more
Is there any way to make Google Maps like this? This is promising, but not for Google Maps. This doesn’t look promising 🙂 Answer Google Maps offers a very extensive API for style customisation. You can customise almost any element. This is done through a Javascript API: the styles are saved in a JSON structure … Read more
I’m doing a PovRay scene and am using NASA’s Blue Marble images as a source to render earth. I also found some maps for the moon and the sun. Now I also want to have the milky way in the scene. The closest I could find was this star-field which works fine, but does not … Read more
I’m looking for a piece of software that can (semi)-automatically generate maps like BBC use to associate stories from around the world: Example: http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/79577000/png/_79577534_chinakashgar1114.cxp.png Does anyone know how the BBC does it or have any suggestions? Software price is not really an issue, but something user friendly would be preferable. Any help would be much … Read more
Does anyone know of good city specific (although I would be interested in others as well) plug-ins for fantasy role playing game map making using GIMP? I am more looking at macro-scale (so whole city and a little of country side) rather than a tactical map. Edit: I should have asked for brushes: Deviant art … Read more
So I search for a long time, but couldn’t find anything… So basically I’m searching for high quality maps to create something similar like: https://www.mapiful.com https://www.mujumaps.com The map is based on Openstreetmaps, but I don’t know where to get high quality images or vector data to create a similar map Answer You can download the … Read more
