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A couple years I posted links here to a map I was making for the red. I got a lot helpful tips...so I thought I'd try it again on a new project.

We're about ready to print a map series for the John Muir Trail in the Big South Fork. While this is not the Red, it is psychically fused in spirit and strata to the Red. Maybe someone might point out some climbing areas that we missed...but there's not much recent climbing there that i'm aware of...but there's so much rock.

Specs: 2 double-sided 18.5x13 sheets folded down to 5x7 and stuffed into a 4mil ziplock bag. We're using 4 fancy spot-colors and printing them on an old 1-color press in 4 passes. The color is truly old-school, but we're getting very clear, small text and fine lines. The maps have UTM and lat/long gps grids, 50-ft contours, aerial photography, and gps'd features and an elevation profile.

The Links: A caveat before you look...the colors you'll see might seem heavy, intense, etc.... It's hard to show pantone inks on screen. All of the links go to tiled jpgs and gifs and are roughly 2-3 megs and heavily compressed.

I dig this forum and appreciate any input you might provide.

Boyd

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http://www.sheltoweetrace.com/jmt/draft ... st-v4.html | JMT EAST Map Proof, 2.5 megabyte tiled image | 1:31,680 Scale, 4-color, 18.5" x 13", Aerial Photography, 50-ft elevation contours, GPS'ed trails for east half JMT area

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http://www.sheltoweetrace.com/jmt/draft ... st-v4.html | JMT WEST Map Proof, 2.5 megabyte tiled image | 1:31,680 Scale, 4-color, 18.5" x 13", Aerial Photography, 50-ft elevation contours, GPS'ed trails for west section JMT area

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http://www.sheltoweetrace.com/jmt/draft ... ew.v3.html | INSET & LOCATOR Map Proof, 1.5 megabyte tiled image | Mixed Scale, 2-color, 18.5" x 13"

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http://www.sheltoweetrace.com/jmt/draft ... rofile.gif | JMT Trail Elevation Profile | 46 miles and 900 vertical feet | beta version

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http://www.sheltoweetrace.com/jmt/draft ... ew.V4.html | OVERVIEW Map Proof, 1.5 megabyte tiled image | 1:84,480 Scale, 4-color, 18.5" x 13", GPS'ed trails for central BSF region

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looks great, boyd

it's hard to tell on since they're not printed but, personally, i might have made the imagery a little more prominent and the contours a little more transparent.. again, though, that's me and i'm an imagery kinda guy. i can't tell for sure if you have any hillshade going on there.. is there one? if not, did you keep it off because it was too confusing/too much? and do you guys use corel or anything to get the map "pretty" or do you do it all in esri or similar software?

i really like how you have the boundary for state and national parks.. looks good! fonts and all look good, too. the paler outside border.. what is that exactly? just curious because depending on what it is exactly you have a couple cutoff labels.. might not matter, though..

i'll take a closer look again later.. bu seriously nice work!

Thanks Paul.3eb!

The imagery is aerial photography and on the lighter side. I'd like to run it darker, but I worry I'll lose the contours. People often look at aerials and confuse valleys for ridges, so we add contours. In my opinion, it's more useful to have contours. A heavy aerial also makes a dark, hard to read map. We might run the aerial imagery in a pale green ink at full strength or duo-tone the imagery. Fairly experimental printing though.

There's a hillshade on the overview map. That outside pale border contains an eighth-inch bleed for trimming to final size. Software? Adobe on a mac mostly and some esri.

Boyd

ps...why are you a Paul3eb ... is it freaky friday already?