I don't know if this would interest you guys or not...but its something different to what you're used to seeing.
From time to time I get this sort of work coming into the office....:rolleyes:
Here is a mud map of a holiday park which wanted their mudmap updated and coloured. (I've removed the name of the park - these people are friends and won't mind if I use it as an example).
The top copy is their original office copy and the coloured version is the one that I made that goes onto the website. :D
I've given away using the cad and corel program and do all the fixes in Xara.
Often, these black and white maps come in as rough hand drawn copies, sent in as a Fax or PDF and I usually end up re-drawing it in the XXP program.
These maps have to made in two sizes generally - one for the web and the other as a large print out for customers arriving at the park.
The numbering, lines and wording, always looks the best done in Xara, because of the anti-aliasing properties. Before I got Xara1 when it came out, I used to colour the maps and put the writing on in the corel program but it was always blurry once it was on the website, no matter what I did.
The map had to look good and load fast on their website, otherwise its a waste of time doing it.
Sometimes two years down the track I have to make some sort of alterations to these...like removing cabins or re-numbering them and adding other things in there because the park has grown bigger.
This Park and the area are in severe drought, the Lake has shrunk significantly and there is more beach showing, so an adjustment to the shoreline had to be made. I usually have to guess where the road finishes and the green belts are on alot of these because most Parks are too far away and I have to rely on what they say in their email! :eek: Some are alot more complicated and bigger than this one...lots of fun and games with these though....
I hope that someone finds this interesting and I haven't bored the pants off you! ;)
From
Michele
