tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189482.post1322108532375542646..comments2024-03-26T21:46:56.291-07:00Comments on The ZehnKatzen Times: [map_design] Where's The Free Oregon City Maps?Samuel John Kleinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514541030057763303noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189482.post-86295854715873609902007-11-05T16:12:00.000-08:002007-11-05T16:12:00.000-08:00Well, for what it's worth, I've not found any othe...Well, for what it's worth, I've not found any other glaring errors. But though I was born and reared in Oregon, I've not been near as many places as I'd liked to have been so far.<BR/><BR/>That omission of the line representing Cedar Street certainly is peculiar, I'll grant you. Wonder why that was missed...<BR/><BR/>I'd still recommend the maps, despite the flaws–overall I think they were of acceptable quality, and better than most maps I see from most commercial publishers (you can count on at least one strange error for free regardless of publisher). I naturally can't speak to the production workflow that wrought those changes in the type. <BR/><BR/>I <I>can</I> say that what ODOT offers for free over the Intermets is better, far and away, than most states. For instance, I checked out Ohio's site–their "city and county" maps were merely clipped from the official state maps. <BR/><BR/>You have raised some very good points, however, I can't deny that.Samuel John Kleinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00514541030057763303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189482.post-24120230771088168542007-11-05T15:51:00.000-08:002007-11-05T15:51:00.000-08:00Well I happened to be looking at a super detailed ...Well I happened to be looking at a super detailed map and aerial photo of Forest Grove so I tried downloading one of the recommended free city maps ... of FG. Three things immediately struck me about this map after comparing a couple blocks around Pacific University:<BR/><BR/>1. Cedar Street along the right side of Pacific University is missing. The label is there, but the street is not depicted. <BR/><BR/>2. When you zoom very tight into the street label (or any other labels), it looks as if someone did a punk/bloat filter on outlines of the text. Really Halloweenish. I think it is well understood by most designers that leaving text as Adobe embedded fonts in a PDF results in the highest quality printing. Outlining text is a workaround when there are font problems, and punking outlined text is ... weird.<BR/><BR/>3. The train tracks do not end at Cedar street, but a whole block to the east. <BR/><BR/>I only picked issues that seemed relevant to the transportation focus of the map. In my peripheral vision I noticed many other things that were not shown or shown well, but I assume this is because the focus is streets, rails, and highways. <BR/><BR/>I sincerely hope that the rest of the maps are less problematical than this one. <BR/><BR/>mappamundoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com