Hi Everyone! :)

In tomorrow's live mapping session Ralf will be creating a floorplan in the style used in the Cartographer's Annual 2007 "Gothic Cathedral" issue.

Come along and see how to use the style, and join in the chat.

This is getting to be quite a civilisation :)

My goodness! Isn't there an easier way to do this?

Have you ever used Krita? It's one of the many free bitmap editors, but the main reason I have it is to work on hand drawn textures. It has this really useful feature where if you press W the image is tiled on an endless plane of repeats, and you can draw anything you like on it - it will automatically tile seamlessly.

That was quite a huge project, Jim. Well done :)

I agree with Remy.

And just because I make lots of those arty type styles it doesn't mean that I don't find the more practical maps interesting and beautiful. I once trianed to be an OS cartographer ;)

There's no appropriate response button, so I shall say it instead.

I really feel for you that so much has been heaped on your shoulders. Let's hope that nasty black cloud blows away and the sun comes out on both your lives again soon :)

And nice to see you around agian, Scott :)

Hmmm. It's there if you go looking, but its very out of date - all about how to do things with CC3, not CC3+

I reinstalled mine about 2 years ago when I got a new machine. I started with CC3+, then everything else starting with the major add-ons, and finished up with the latest update.

Each install was allowed to open CC3+ at the end of the install, which was then closed down before the next install.

It might not cure the problem, but it's worth a try.

When you export a map from FT3 it uses it's own internal template according to the export settings. If you have asked for a Cosmographer export it will produce an FCW file that is suitable for Cosmographer, though you may have to copy the contents of that file and re-paste them in a new file created in the style you wish to use.