While you cannot add raw KML files to the M4CC extension, there are still ways to use them. The reason for simplifying data like this is twofold: 1) You will shorten the load time of your file to the Illustrator extension 2) Your map download/sync time will be improved as well. shp file that contains all the footprints in my map’s extent in one single row in the database. shp file, not specifying any field upon which to dissolve.

For the purpose of simplification and data size reduction, I performed a dissolve function on the. While I only mapped the area surrounding the NACIS 2017 conference, that is still a lot of building footprints! A row created for each one of these buildings can be pretty heavy, and since I knew I was only going to be using the the footprints as a visual backdrop, it was not important to keep the heavily attributed information for each building footprint. For this Montréal map, I used OpenStreetMap building footprint data (.osm), which was converted into a. This is when I like to use OpenStreetMap, which is crowdsourced geographic data available to members within the Open Database License.

For other cities, it is a little more challenging. Some cities make finding their building footprint data very easy. Dissolve big datasets that don’t need attributes for final output Art-Deco themed Montreal Map featuring art deco buildingsġ. This post describes some useful information for constructing a map like this one.

For one of my presentations, co-presented with Clint Loveman, I demoed how to make this art deco-themed map using the ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud extension (M4CC) inside of Adobe Illustrator. This year’s conference was held in Montréal. A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the annual North American Cartographic Information Society ( NACIS) conference.

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