References
Orienteering Maps – The Origin of OCAD
OCAD is the leading software for drawing orienteering maps and is used all around the world. It was the first computer programm specialized on orienteering maps and has set standards in technological development ever since.
District of Berlin – Customised Maps for Berlin
National map series at a scale of 1:5’000, based on ALK: The administration of the City of Berlin is divided into 12 district offices. The majority of these offices use OCAD to produce the map of Berlin at a scale of 1:5000 (K5) as well as for district and customised maps.
District Office Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg of Berlin
Cadastral Office Münster – City Map Münster
“The city of Münster uses OCAD to keep the official city map. By adding additional object types and with the help of the Multiple Representation functions, maps for larger scales can be created. Also in OCAD, the bicycle city map as well as various thematic maps are kept.
Frank Oppermann
Cadastral office, City of Münster
Jübermans Kartographie – Water Sports Maps
Institute of Cartography Dresden – High Mountain Maps
The Institute of Cartography of the Technical University of Dresden in collaboration with Trekkingchile produced the topographic hiking map San Pedro de Atacama (Chile).
Geodetic Institute of Slovenia – City Map Maribor
“The Geodetic Institute of Slovenia is a Slovenian cartographic institution with 65 years tradition in mapmaking. All our maps, for the past 20 years, are produced with OCAD. Among them are our three »ICA – Excellence in cartography« winning maps: Maribor (Town Map, 1999), Bohinj (Topographic (Mountaineering) Map, 2011) and Slovenija (VFR Aeronautical Chart, 2017).”
Primož Kete
Geodetic Institute of Slovenia
Geotopo – Deployment Plans for Fire Brigades With “Firebird”
The program “firebird” is for professional and standardised recording and management of all data having to do with fire objects and their danger in practice. In particular, it contains tools for assessment sheets, location drawings, detailed plans, directions, and water transport with pressure calculations.
Orell Füssli Cartography – City Map Lausanne
“We use OCAD mainly for the creation of city maps, panoramic and hiking maps. Among others, one practical feature is the georeferenced import of hiking trails in combination with raster layers of the national map for our TopoRando series 1:25’000.”
Giuliano Beccarelli
Orell Füssli Cartography AG
Mepmedya – City map Istandbul
“In all the years in which we have been working with OCAD, we can only confirm that OCAD AG stands by us in all questions. In case of problems we always try to find a quick solution.”
Yusuf Güven
Mepmedya
MeKi Landkarten GmbH – Cycling Maps, Maps and Atlases
The MeKi Landkarten GmbH creates a variety of maps. The cycling maps have been developed “by cyclists for cyclists” and are mainly in the scale 1:30’000. Moreover, they create maps, city atlases and other cartographic products.
Land surveying office Darmstadt – City map Darmstadt
“The City of Science Darmstadt creates the official city map with OCAD, as well as all thematic maps for print and web, e.g. the city atlas, the development plan atlas, the land value map, the statistical districts or the district map. In addition, topographic maps are produced in the scales 1:20,000 – 1:70,000.”
Harry Korn
Land surveying office Darmstadt
IGN France – Updating of Topographic Maps
Even today, many topographic maps are only available in raster format. OCAD provides a simple procedure to constantly transform raster maps into vector maps.
