What Software Should I Use For Drawing Maps?
What Software Should I Use For Drawing Maps?Jason writes: “I need to convert several hand-drawn line drawings (maps) into digital images. To do this, my plan is to get good scans of the hand-drawn maps, set the scan as a locked layer, and then “trace” it using the drawing tools on the software. This will give me a new, clean, digital image to use for publication. I just need to be able to layer images, draw shapes, straight lines, and freehand lines, rotate parts of the image, and adjust line widths.” [Read the full post in the forum]Answer: If you do your tracing in a vector-based program, the maps will be scalable. Compared to a bitmap-based program like Photoshop, a vector-based program is much better-suited to drawing and editing maps. For example, you can use different line styles for different things, change line widths and
