The Historical Vector Maps of Europe

The Historical Vector Maps of Europe: create your own historical map of Europe

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Historical Vector Maps of Europe
by Christos Nüssli

Price: from 65 to 140 euros per map

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Description

The maps used for the Euratlas Historical Atlas of Europe cover the Earth’s surface from the degree 15 west to 50 east, and from degree 20 north to 60 north. They describe the political situation of this area at the first day of each centennial year C.E. The first map is year 1, and the following are increased by 100 up to year 2000. The history maps can be superimposed to the Physical Vector Map of Europe.

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Platform

Windows 95 / 98 / NT / 2000 / Me / XP / Mac OS

System requirements

- PC or Mac.
- Corel Draw 10 or higher or Adobe Illustrator 8 or higher required.
- The map is provided in Corel Draw 10 and Adobe Illustrator 8 CMYK formats.

Main features

Each map consists of 9 layers or main planes. The layers surimposing order, fonts and colors may be changed according to User's choice.

1-pays: coloured polygons representing the countries. Dependent countries are drawn in the same color as the main state but bear a smaller surface with a specific shade. The User has to redraw shadings by himself if needed.

2-rivers: lines representing the main water courses. With the exception of a few details (Suez Canal, for example), this layer is the same for all maps.

3-oceans: drawing of sea and lake surfaces, i.e., of coasts, in 6 main vector objects. The colour of the lakes or of the North Sea can be changed without touching the Mediterranean. This layer is relatively homogeneous regardless of the century considered, but there are four main forms: 1 - 700, 800 - 1400, and 1500 - 1900. The 2000 layer has additional artificial land and lakes.

4-villes: small circles with names in 1-point Arial font mark the sites of the main cities of each century. The names, in local language, vary, going from Latin to Medieval and modern languages. There are about 1000 names for ancient maps. This number increases progressively to 2550 for the year 2000. As font coding may cause complex issues, an additional layer named "4b-villes vect" includes all names as vectorized fonts. This layer may be suppressed if the main layer displays text properly.

5-provinces: polygonal lines for internal administrative borders of main countries and major administrative divisions like regions or dioceses.

6-frontieres: polygonal lines for the countries borders.

7-names or 7-noms or 7-nomines: names of countries, divisions and subdivisions or peoples. There are about 150 place names for ancient maps, and the number increases to 1070 for year 2000. Text is in Latin up until year 500, and in French or English for the following centuries. Fonts used are TimesNewRoman but, as font coding may cause problems, 2 additional layers, "7b-noms vect", "7b-names vect" or "7b-nomines vect", are including all names as vectorized fonts. These layers may be suppressed if the display of the the main layer is correct.

8-coord: latitude and longitude lines with an increment of 5.

9-coord2: work layer offering latitudes and longitudes, with a precision of half a degree. All maps are provided as zip files in both Corel Draw 10 and Adobe illustrator 8 formats. The Corel Draw 10 zip files are weighting 3.09 MB to 11.6 MB and the Adobe Illustrator 10 zip files are weighting 2.26 MB to 8.7 MB for map 2000. The final files will be lighter when the additional layers with vectorized text will be removed.

Each User of one or more vector map files is entitled to download the Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe Basic version 1.2 bilingual.

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After payment by credit card, you will receive download links with login and password for both Corel Draw 10 and Adobe Illustrator 8 format of the choosen Euratlas Historical Vector Map Maps and for the complete edition of the Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe Basic Bilingual version 1.2. These links will be valid for 24 hours. Your license will be sent by post.

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Spotlight reviews

"superimpose the historical vector map with a mountain map and you'll see an impressive display of history" Andrew B.