Cartography is both the science and the art of visually representing geographical data. It promotes a better understanding of our data, and ultimately, data-driven business decisions. GIS tools produce excellent maps. But taking your cartography to the next level requires a vector graphics editor - even if it’s just for a few finishing touches - and that can be a tedious, manual effort. Using FME and Avenza as part of the process, you can eliminate the struggles of high-quality map creation. You’ll save many hours of work, leaving you more time for the fun, creative aspects of your cartography. Join us and special guest speakers Hans van der Maarel from Red Geographics and Nick Burchell from Avenza to learn how FME shines as part of a high-end map production workflow. During the hour, we’ll walk you through: - An overview of MAPublisher’s extensive cartographic capabilities - An overview of FME and its basic cartographic capabilities, including the Illustrator format writer - How Avenza’s MAPublisher integrates FME with Adobe Illustrator directly - The power of automation to achieve faster map production Don’t miss out on the chance to learn how you can make your maps with more precision, speed, and style than ever. See you there!

1. Streamlined
Processes for
High Quality
Cartography

2. Meet the Presenters
Mark Ireland
FME Evangelist, Safe
Software
Nick Burchell
Director QA /
Product Manager,
Avenza
Hans van der Maarel
Owner, Red Geographics

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5. Agenda
● MAPublisherʼs cartographic
capabilities
● FME and cartographic capabilities
○ Illustrator format writer
● How Avenzaʼs MAPublisher
integrates FME with Adobe
Illustrator directly
● The power of automation to
achieve faster map production
● Resources + Q&A

6. Make beautiful maps with
more precision, speed, and
style than ever.

7. Defining Cartography
Cartography is both the science and the art of visually representing geographical data.
It promotes a better understanding of our data, and ultimately, data-driven business
decisions.

8. Spatial data can be difficult to
manage.
Itʼs scattered all over, itʼs full of errors,
itʼs in different formats, itʼs trapped in old
programs.

9. Poll
How much of your time is
spent mapping data?

10. MAPublisher’s cartographic
capabilities

11. Nick Burchell

13. The Avenza Platform
.
Geospatial
Data
Mobile App Map Store
Cartographic &
Spatial Imagery
software

14. MAPublisher
Create Maps With Geospatial Data in Adobe
Illustrator
MAPublisher integrates more than seventy GIS
mapping tools into the Adobe environment.
● Seamless Integration
● Geospatial Interoperability
● Cartographic Workflow
● Highly Compatible
#mapsinadobe

15. MAPublisher
Seamless integration with Adobe Illustrator

16. MAPublisher
Geospatial Interoperability

17. MAPublisher
Geospatial Interoperability

18. MAPublisher
Geospatial Interoperability

19. MAPublisher
Cartographic Workflow

20. MAPublisher
Cartographic Workflow

21. MAPublisher
Cartographic Workflow

22. FME > MAPublisher
MAPublisher

23. Chat Storm
Where do you get your data from
and how do you get your data into
illustrator?

24. FME’s Cartographic Capabilities

25. Years of solving data challenges
28+
16,000+
Organizations trusting us worldwide
Global partners delivering FME Services
190+
128
Countries with FME customers
Safe Software
Company Profile
www.safe.com
Users active in FME Community
16,000+

26. FME®
Enterprise Integration Platform
FME Desktop
Build & Run Data Workflows
FME Server
Automate Data Workflows
FME Mobile
Deliver the Power of
FME to Mobile
The only Enterprise Integration Solution with comprehensive support for Spatial Data
Powering your dataflows on premises, in the cloud, and on mobile
FME Cloud
FME Server in the cloud

27. Unrivaled Data Support

28. This is our source data:
How can FME help?
Regardless of format, FME can easily read,
reproject, and write the data to eps for use
in Illustrator (or any other system).

29. This is our source data:
How can FME help?
Regardless of format, FME can easily read,
reproject, and write the data to eps for use
in Illustrator (or any other system).
But the direct results
are not especially good.
The data is not ideal for Illustrator. It has
“aggregate” objects and too many vertices.

30. This is our source data (Shapefile)
How can FME help?
FME can easily read, reproject, and
write the data to eps for use in
Illustrator.
But the results are
not especially good.
The data is not ideal for Illustrator. It has
“aggregate” objects and too many vertices.

31. How can FME help?
FME easily solves
those problems
with some simple
transformers.
We add more data, apply a basic
colour, and the results are a good
base to work with in Illustrator.

32. How can FME help?
FME easily solves
those problems
with some simple
transformers.
We add more data, apply a basic
colour, and the results are a good
base to work with in Illustrator.

33. The Final Result

34. Red Geographics
● Team of 3: Veerle, Hans & Inge
● Dutch reseller of Avenza and Safe
● 20+ years of experience working with
both
● Strong background in cartography and
GIS
● Often work on the border between those
fields

35. WE OFTEN HAVE TO MAKE
A LOT OF MAPS
IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME

36. Which is great! We love making maps!

37. BUT…
MAKING A LOT OF MAPS CAN TAKE
A LOT OF TIME
AND CAN BE VERY TEDIOUS

38. Automating the mapping process is
great
but…
We don’t want to sacrifice quality!

41. Demo Introduction
The Goal
We need to
produce a large
number of maps.
All the same style
but different areas.
The Obstacles
This is a tedious
process, which has
a high risk of
human errors
The Solution
The combination of
MAPublisher and
FME, through the
FME Auto plugin
The Result
The repetitive tasks
have been
automated, per
map processing
time is “a couple of
seconds”

42. Demo

43. Tips & Tricks
Not everything can be automated, but
thatʼs okay!
Automate the parts that are tedious and
repetitive and therefore error-prone
Save time for the artistic, fun, parts of
cartography!

44. The power of automation to
achieve faster map production

45. Demo

46. Don’t waste the value of your data
by keeping it stuck.

47. Next Steps
Download
FME 2022.2 &
workspaces
Apply the
workspaces to your
own data to
manage changes
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Contact us. We
would love to chat
with you about
anything data
info@safe.com
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48. Resources
Use the FME Community: community.safe.com
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From Data to Maps to Docs: Turn Days into Minutes with Automated
Integration

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51. safe.com/accelerator

53. Save the Date
The Peak of Data Integration 2023 Europe UC
September 5-7, 2023 | Bonn, Germany

54. Q&A

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