I am new to Inkscape and to cartography. Is there any Inkscape expert who might give me some tuition (for a reasonable fee) in or near Harrow, London UK?

The web based videos and books don't work for me.
James

Hi James-

What kind of cartography are you looking at?

-Rob A>

I want to draw city street maps dating to the second world war that I can then embed in an MS Word manuscript without loss of clarity. I would like to go on to use the maps as a basis for a geographic information system potentially as a web site.

I am having difficulty both with filling the shapes with bespoke fills and with the export of the maps to MS Word without loss of clarity - and in some cases, loss of objects.

James

Hi again James-

In my experience, starting with a vector application (like Inkscape) with the hopes of moving to a GIS system is quite troublesome. Have you considered starting with a GIS which can export your map data and then use an application like Inkscape to "pretty" it up?

http://opensourcegis.org/ is a good starting point for FOSS options when it comes to GIS and DIY GIS...

Can't help with MS Word - In my experience it doesn't play well with most vector formats other than WMF.

-Rob A>

-Rob A>

Rob A

Many thanks. Am I onto a loser trying to use Inkscape for embedding diagrams in an MS Word document?

James

Someone else was trying to embed something into MS Word, recently. You might search the forum using "MS Word" or "Word", and learn their outcome. (Unfortunately, I don't remember the results, just the subject.)

Thanks, Brynn. Much appreciated.
James

RobA wrote:Can't help with MS Word - In my experience it doesn't play well with most vector formats other than WMF.

Second that. I've abandoned any hope to use svg's in msword.

Whenever I need graphics in word, I export to png first - then I manually add the image in word (link to).