Railroad Canyon label from the original quad map versus US topo on the right. For smaller features this isn’t quite as much of an issue, but for larger features like mountain ranges, a single point label on a particular quad is poor at best and quite misleading in my opinion. I know that there are funding issues, usability issues, etc., but nevertheless, I hate to see this art fade away. One of the things that I love about the original USGS topo 1:24k maps and I lament about the new US Topo products is the lack of feature labels on bézier curves that are now printed as straight block labels instead. All of the features in the GNIS dataset are point features even if they represent features that are distinctly linear. It is a fantastic dataset and despite the fact that there seems to be no reasonable way to get errors fixed–namely grossly misplaced peaks and elevation values–it has proven to be a valuable resource for cartographers. The GNIS (Geographic Names Information System) is the authoritative* source of information for place names in the United States. (1) If the value in NAME contains “National”, (2) then replace with NAME (ie-leave it alone., (3) if it doesn’t contain “National”, then replace the value with the existing NAME value and append the string “National Park”.Īpply the expression via the “Apply Expression” option in the flyout menu of the MAP Attributes table:Īnd the features in question have the correct string, “National Park”, applied to them: IF(CONTAINS(NAME,"National"),NAME,NAME & " " & "National Park") If it does, leave the NAME value alone, if it doesn’t, then append “National Park” to the end of the existing value. So, we need an expression that looks to see if the string “National” exists. Some values have “National Park”, others don’t Some of the values in the NAME field had “National Park” somewhere in the name, sometimes at the beginning, sometimes at the end. In this case I wanted to label all of the National Parks. I was working with the WPDA dataset and labeling a subset of the polygons. Append a string if another string doesn’t already exist I’m going to write them down here and maybe I won’t have to look them up in the future! And maybe it will help someone else. Often I will figure something out, do the thing, move on, and then kick myself 6 months or 3 years down the road when I have to figure the same thing out all over again.
Typically this is for formatting the names of features before generating labels, but not always.
Any ideas how I could solve this are highly appreciated.From time to time I need to edit attributes in the MAPublisher MAP Attributes table. I tried to create a clipping mask by moving 'Area of Interest' into the layer 'Data' but this did not work properly as the geodata is grouped and consists of multiple paths.Īttached below the examples of the effect I am trying to achieve (edited in Photoshop) for illustration.
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I can do this in Photoshop (see illustration below) but I was wondering if anyone has an idea of how to solve this in Illustrator with grouped data.
One example might be that everything outside is in black and white or another example everything outside is less saturated, e.g. My problem: I am trying to find a method to highlight the data inside my area of interest in red. An example of my layer structure in the image below on the rightern side. I create topographical maps consisting of mostly vector data and a shading in png format. I am working with Adobe Illustrator and the Avenza Mapublisher plugins which allows to load geodata into Illustrator.
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