I see that ESRI has posted their presentation on historic map effects with ArcGIS from the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS), NACIS 2006 conference. I’m not sure how much demand there is for these kinds of effects, but it is so damn cool that you have to take a look. Everything is included along with notes on how to create the effects. I wish they wouldn’t dump this stuff in the Basemap data models page as I think it gets lost in the shuffle, but I’m glad to see some new Desktop tips and tricks.
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Sean Gillies
// Nov 6, 2006 at 4:02 pm
It’s like the maps we used to make back in the pirate days, arr! Ports good for carousing were annotated with a bottle of rum, towns good for pillaging with a pile of coins. Sea monsters, ghost ships, zephyrs, and mermaids sprinkled liberally for extra flavor.
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James Fee
// Nov 6, 2006 at 9:20 pm
That comes in handy in Colorado I bet Sean.
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Tom Bell
// Jan 9, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Has anyone at ESRI followed up on this? I know they were working on other datasets to release with Historic Map Effects, as well as “stream tapering” but I haven’t seen anything in a while.
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