{"id":119,"date":"2008-02-01T12:18:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T14:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2008-02-01T12:18:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T14:18:25","slug":"map-development-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"110. map development 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

By mid-2004 it seemed practical to convert my website about Argentina into a blog. Spending a lot of time in Europe for work didn’t help me develop projects about Buenos Aires, but I thought Recoleta Cemetery was too important & too interesting to leave neglected.<\/p>\n

The biggest hurdle was having to learn to use yet another program. After teaching myself HTML, Javascript, Flash, Photoshop, & CSS, the last thing I wanted to do was learn how to use Adobe Illustrator. But it had to be done. I took a photo of the Nov 2003 map at the entrance gate, imported it to Illustrator & began to trace the general layout of the cemetery… a good way to learn to use the program.<\/p>\n

Once the rough master copy was complete, I began going to the cemetery almost daily to compare & correct. It was much more work than I expected. As I counted the number of actual vaults vs.<\/em> those on the map, the difference was enormous. What to do? The easiest approach seemed to be to divide the cemetery into sectors & walk every aisle, counting the number of vaults as I went. Each day I’d input changes so I wouldn’t forget what I’d seen. It made for some interesting posts on my blog, & mapping took several months to finish.<\/p>\n

Some of the stages are below with the original traced map in orange & the corrected version in blue:<\/p>\n

\"Map<\/p>\n

Read the complete story in the following posts titled “map development”: Part 1<\/a>, Part 2<\/a>, Part 4<\/a>, Part 5<\/a>, Part 6<\/a> & Part 7<\/a>. Good news!<\/strong> The PDF guidebook<\/a> is now available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By mid-2004 it seemed practical to convert my website about Argentina into a blog. Spending a lot of time in Europe for work didn’t help…<\/p>\n

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