Abstract

Series production of print ready raster data
Track: National Mapping
Authors: derek bigwood

Since 1992 the Image Mapper system has proven to be a reliable and robust environment for the production of 1:50,000 raster data production. With the development of new computer designs and specifications this system is now considered redundant and unsupported by most commercial software and ArcGIS is currently being investigated as a replacement to the Image Mapper system. This presentation identifies how the ArcGIS functionality has been manipulated to form the final stage in the production of a print ready CMYK 4 channel raster and includes how problems with the colour combination of a large number of 1bit raster tiffs have been overcome; the expansion of line data on specific colour tiffs; the creation of blank areas within specific line detail to insert contour lines; the selection and manipulation of tiffs that contain no data as well as how future ArcGIS versions may affect the development our map production processes.