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[Dennis McClendon]

I wonder if anyone knows anything more about Ortelius:

http://apptree.net/ortelius.htm

There was a note on The Map Room about it. I've sent the developer a note about coming to NACIS, but it looks like he's in Australia and mapping may not be his central interest.

[DrJill]

I wonder if anyone knows anything more about Ortelius:

http://apptree.net/ortelius.htm

There was a note on The Map Room about it. I've sent the developer a note about coming to NACIS, but it looks like he's in Australia and mapping may not be his central interest.

Hi Dennis,

While it's been a while since your post I do have an update. Graham Cox is the developer of Ortelius (you're correct he's in Australia). Though not a cartographer himself, Graham started working on Ortelius out of his love for maps and frustration over the relative dearth of mapping software for the Mac platform (as a geographer and Mac user I've shared this frustration ). Graham built the drawing engine DrawKit very much with Ortelius in mind. With DrawKit complete (beta4), Ortelius is in the pipe for a first version release in early 2009.

Last spring Graham and I partnered on Ortelius. I'm quite excited to be working with Graham on affordable map illustration software that fills a gap between GIS and standard drawing programs. We've submitted a workshop abstract to introduce Ortelius at the March 2009 AAG conference in Las Vegas. While my own background has been heavy in the geospatial industry, I'm a relative new comer to NACIS and I'm really looking forward to attending the 2009 NACIS conference.

Sincerely,

Jill Saligoe-Simmel

[Matthew Hampton]

Wow. This looks very intriguing. I would love to play around with it and see if it can speed-up my workflow. I wonder how well it integrates with other apps and how it handles rasters/projections. It sounds like quite a value!