A Fork in Our Mapping Road
Hi all,
Here at the Indy Star, we're exploring our options for mapping applications. At present, we're nearing the end of a contract with a web-based mapping vendor and face choices about the direction we want to take.
There are numerous advantages to a web-based approach, but we're open to disk-based options, too. We use ESRI's ArcView 9.3 for heavier thematic mapping tasks, but our setup here in the office makes it cumbersome for producing a quick locator map.
We would love to hear feedback on what other departments are using these days.
Thanks for your input.
Stephen Beard
Here at the Indy Star, we're exploring our options for mapping applications. At present, we're nearing the end of a contract with a web-based mapping vendor and face choices about the direction we want to take.
There are numerous advantages to a web-based approach, but we're open to disk-based options, too. We use ESRI's ArcView 9.3 for heavier thematic mapping tasks, but our setup here in the office makes it cumbersome for producing a quick locator map.
We would love to hear feedback on what other departments are using these days.
Thanks for your input.
Stephen Beard
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Permalink Reply by Brian Cragin on
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What makes your setup cumbersome?
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Permalink Reply by Stephen Beard on
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A host of things, really. At the moment, no one else in the dept. is trained on Arcview. Also, our single copy of Arcview is housed in a Mac Mini running Parallels. It takes about 5 minutes to open a new map, and several minutes for each shapefile layer. Exporting to AI adds several more minutes to the time. Then it needs cleaned up in Illustrator. In a web-based approach, one can have a locator map done in a fraction of the time.
All of this is correctable, though I'm not sure I'm sold on Arcview as an efficient solution for all of our artists.
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