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MAPublisher is a suite of Plug-Ins and Xtras for Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia FreeHand that bridges Geographic Information System (GIS) technology with high-end graphics software for high resolution printing and electronic publishing technology. Avenza is located in Burlington, Ontario, on the outskirts of Toronto. The staff includes an engineer, a web designer/system administrator, a cartographer and a core group of programmers. Avenza is now a small but innovative company employing about 10 people. This realization led to the creation of Avenza and its main product, MAPublisher. Why scan and screen digitize endless sheets of paper maps when accurate and georeferenced vectors were readily available? Why spend hours adding database attributes to vectors when this data had already been collected? In 1995, along with a GIS programmer and two other partners, he realized the need for a better way of making maps.

He quickly realized that he was spending hours completing work that was already available. The founder of Avenza was hired by the graphics department of a major company to make maps.

MAPublisher is used by government agencies, educational institutions, and businesses worldwide to create publication quality mapping products from GIS data sources. It adds graphics capabilities that are unavailable with a typical GIS. MAPublisher adds GIS capabilities to these two graphics applications. MAPublisher is a suite of Plug-Ins and Xtras for Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia FreeHand. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-386 Avenza's MAPublisher By Susan MulemeĮ-mail: Software Inc., the developers of MAPublisher, is a small company located in Burlington, Ontario.

OF-99-386: Avenza's MAPublisher Digital Mapping Techniques '99 - Workshop Proceedings
