High resolution 300dpi maps??

[Jez_Lumos]

Hi all,

I need some maps for a 'directions page' does anyone know where I can get high res maps from or if there's a way of getting maps from google earth/ google maps that aren't 72dpi

Thanks!

 

[Katedesign]

I'm assuming that you need to put directions on a brochure/leaflet... Most people (in print) draw their own in Illustrator. It doesn't have to be dead accurate usually a general one showing the A/main roads and then perhaps a detailed bit of how to find the end destination - small roads etc.

Just make sure that you get the right number of roundabouts... I once sent all the people coming to my house warming to the wrong side of the river we lived near - missed out a vital roundabout!

 

[Jez_Lumos]

This is pretty much what I have done, but an "actual map" has been specified.

 

[Stationery Direct]

Do a search on google for 'free vector UK maps' and you might come across something...

 

[Jez_Lumos]

Yeah , I have done. Nothing doing.

 

[Katedesign]

Somewhere deep in my computer I have a programme that makes real maps... though from memory it's only M, A & B roads, towns, counties etc. Ordnance Survey has the copyright on maps!

 

[staunton_rook]

google should offer the maps as vectors, they could make a fortune

 

[Paul Murray]

A word of warning to anyone planning to use or copy a map from Google, Bing, etc. Many of these maps features "trap streets" (I think they're also called "oxygen streets"). These are basically fake or altered streets unique to a specific provider that are intended to identity anyone copying their maps without permission.

I'm not sure what the legality is of tracing over a map, but either way I'd recommend cross-referencing.

 

[dedwardp]

I'm not sure what the legality is of tracing over a map, but either way I'd recommend cross-referencing.

This - when I've drawn maps before I've just print-screened Google Maps and drawn over the top of it.

I know you've specified you need to use an 'actual map', but I doubt you'll find anything at 300dpi for a local area, only national maps.

 

[Katedesign]

I would think if you are tracing over a map and recreating it you are safe from the 'map police'. I've redrawn my local area loads of times - keep them all in a map folder so that they are easily adaptable for the next client.

 

[javax]

If anyone is still looking for a map provider then I believe that OpenStreetMap has an export feature and I think that their licence allowes it to be printed too.

 

[nunoband]

Couldn't you take a screen shot or use Windows "Snipping tool"

And then,
Is it not possible to draw on your print screen map, crop and then convert the image to 300+DPI on Photoshop?