Abstract
Migrating UN Cartography to ArcGIS Environment
Track: Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Affairs
Author(s): Guillaume Le Sourd
The United Nations Cartographic Section provides page size maps of countries for UN
Secretariat publications. While the maps of respective countries have been prepared
in Illustrator software for the last 10 years, this presentation reviews the feasibility
to migrate the production of theses publications maps from Illustrator environment
to ArcGIS environment.
For the needs of publications the UN Cartographic Section is preparing general as
well as deployment maps (for UN Peacekeeping mission). While the Illustrator format
ensures graphical quality the task to produce new maps or update the various maps
in a not centralized manner do not allow populating the changes to a wide range of
maps covering the same regions. To achieve faster updates/production and with
developments of ArcGIS in Cartographic representations, this paper explores and
outlines the feasibility of migrating from CAD to GIS environment while preserving
high quality cartography.
Maplex, Cartographic representations, Military Overlay Editor and annotations
Guillaume Le Sourd
United Nations
1 UN Plaza
DC1-512
New York , New York 10017
United States
Phone: 917 367 9534
E-mail: lesourd@un.org