Whether you need to show your location, study area, service territories, neighborhood, trends, news, or world, Ortelius makes mapping easy.

Ortelius map illustration software has everything you need to create your own custom maps.

Here are some key features of "Ortelius":

· Maps - Loaded with a broad selection of royalty-free world, continent, and country map templates to customize and make your own.
· Ortelius is a new way to communicate your project through maps, make landscape and floor plans, show service territories, and well… draw your world.
· Choose from templates, use your own existing (GIS) map data, or make custom-scaled map graphics – you have the flexibility to decide.
· Tools - Ortelius invites you to be creative. Over 20 tools for selecting, drawing, and navigation offer maximum versatility.
· Roads and river bends are not points and straight line segments, draw them as they they were meant to be with flowing Bezier curves.
· Thanks to Ortelius’ swift object editing, you can move shapes, adjust curves, add intelligent labels, rotate directly, and add or remove vertices along your paths with ease.
· Automatic Junctions. Roads know how they connect to each other and junctions are drawn properly, fully automatically. If it needs moving, all of its connector roads move with it, maintaining junctions as it goes.
· Introducing Linear Select™. Need to insert a bridge? Highlight the road and insert one. Linear select gives you “just-right positioning” of labels, image adornments, and much more.
· Now, that’s handy.
· Styles & Symbols - Finally, produce gorgeous maps using the full power of Quartz imaging. Everything is pin-sharp and anti-aliased. Ortelius comes with hundreds of sensational map symbols – all fully scalable vector graphics.
· For those who don’t like to hold back, you have the creative license you deserve. With a striking choice of colors, fills, strokes, and adornments you can assemble unlimited style and symbol combinations.
· Labels - The coolest mapping software not only lets you create outstanding map graphics, but it also gives you amazing flexibility for text editing and label placement. Ortelius introduces what-you-see-is-what-you-get map labeling. Intelligent labels understand underlying feature attributes. You have to see it to believe it.
· Layers - Keep your map information organized by placing like-features together on their own layers.
· Water with water, roads with roads, you can instantly create layers to match any type of map content. Drag-and-drop layer ordering lets you keep your most important information on top. Easily add, arrange and group layers. And yes, Ortelius automatically creates layers from newly imported GIS map data.
· Colors - Ortelius’ Symbols Palette is loaded with “Color Regions” based on ColorBrewer color ramps that are proven for mapping.
· Of course, you can select from millions of colors using the Apple Colors panel. Drag-and-drop your favorite colors to directly re-color map objects.
· Ortelius uses calibrated color throughout for repeatable results that will satisfy the most exacting professional print standards. Play with beautiful color combinations and gradients to create styles and symbols that let your map soar.

Drawing:
· WYSIWYG drawing and editing
· Fully editable, smooth vector graphics
· Specify canvas size, color, and texture; graph paper grid size; index grid layout, color, and labeling
· Direct intelligent labeling

Select and Edit:
· Search and select by visible text; advance select; select all, select others; new layer from selection
· Convert objects to-and-from paths, shapes, and connectable paths, path outlines, and text objects
· Combine objects (union, intersect, difference, exclusive of, and append)
· Intelligent labeling with attributes

Geographic Intelligence:
· Graphics support attribute information
· Real-world locational coordinates and common map projections (Professional Edition features; under development)
· Scale and measure

User Interface and Mac OS X Integration:
· Tools and symbols palettes, style inspector, object inspector, font, color, image browser
· Image Browser, drag-and-drop support
· Ortelius also provides a grid, a guide and a ruler.

File Formats:
· Import .jpg, .bmp, .gif, .png, .pdf, and .tif image graphics, and ESRI map shapefile (limited in Standard edition); export .tif, .jpg, .png, and layered .pdf
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Requirements:

· Core Image supported graphics card.
· Recommended: 2 GHz Intel processor, 2+ button scroll mouse.

Limitations:

· 31 days trial period.