GIS and Illustrator

Today in class, we learned how to create topography lines in GIS and other techniques relating to the displaying of topographic features in GIS. To this particular map, I also added data such as the Delaware County Fairground, trees, trails, and the White Rive. 

Once I had made this map in GIS, I then exported it into an Adobe Illustrator file. Next, I opened up the file and went to work making it into an axonometric. First, I selected all of the layers and rotated them 30 degrees. I did this by hovering the cursor over a corner and then rotated it. Once this was complete, I went to Object, Transform, and then Reset Bounding Box. Once this was selected, I clicked on the center square on the blue box around the layers and dragged it down until the layers looked more flat. After this, I selected each layer individually and then dragged them towards the top of the artboard/canvas.