![]() In September 2004, Hans decided to continue on his own and founded Red Geographics. Gathering base data and generalizing it was done in a traditional GIS, but getting that data into Illustrator and making a finished map required MAPublisher.” “I was doing my first internship and was tasked to produce a poster-sized map of The Netherlands in Adobe Illustrator, but all the base data was in Shapefiles or ArcInfo coverages. This type of workflow, combining a mix of both FME and MAPublisher functionalities is now fully realized by the FME Auto add-on for MAPublisher. Hans developed a niche within the Dutch cartographic community that leveraged FME to prepare raw source data before using MAPublisher to visualize and create the final high-quality map products. This is also where he was introduced to Safe Software and their product for data transformation, also known as Feature Manipulation Engine (FME). After graduation he started working for his local Avenza partner, doing tech support, training, consultancy, and commercial map production processes. During an internship at the National Spatial Planning Agency, he was first introduced to the MAPublisher plug-in for Adobe Illustrator. There he was introduced to various kinds of mapping and surveying, learning the techniques necessary to plan and design meaningful effective maps. This interest persisted into high school, where at a job fair he found out you could actually study map-making as a career.Ĭontinuing his studies, Hans pursued a program in Geo-Informatics at Hogeschool Utrecht (a four-year bachelor’s level course offering a mix of geodesy, GIS, and cartography). His found himself drawn to old atlasses, spending hours looking at old maps, and geography was always his favourite subject in school. To read more about Red Geographics, and see more of Hans’s work, visit .įrom a young age, Hans always had a keen interest in maps. You can see some of his latest work through his Georeferencing Techniques Video tutorials released as part of Avenza’s Mapping Class blog series. As an expert MAPublisher user, Hans has been a frequent contributor to the Avenza Resources Blog. Through this passion, Hans has developed a level of expertise found only in the most dedicated of map-making professionals. To Hans, cartography is a passion that extends beyond the office, becoming more than just a career path. He works out of Zevenbergen, Netherlands where he operates his company, Red Geographics. Hans van der Maarel has been a passionate cartographer for over 20 years.
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