Re: Using Xara Xtreme for map illlustrations
Hi Curtis,
I believe Albacore has the correct solution. If your going to print a map you'll need a good vector source file. For example
HERE
These maps are in eps format or the more expensive one is in ai with layers and are Royalty Free.
I don't know anything about ESRI ShapeFile vector format on the Go Spacial web site but I wouldn't believe it would be very simple to import into XX if at all possible.
I assume you want to overlay your fathers information onto a map. The purchased map may have a lot of detail you probably don't want like modern highways etc but provided it's vector you can delete these etc and just use the remaining map data then overlay your fathers features.
I wouldn't recommend drawing it from scratch as you'll always have the problem of where you got the original map data from in the first place. For example, Google maps is happy for you to link a map on your website but you can't use it commercially. So even if you hand traced over the top of a screen grab you may well be breaking all sorts of copyright rules. After all cartography doesn't come cheap.
Egg
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