{"id":1125,"date":"2016-03-04T16:21:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T21:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2021-08-18T19:05:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T23:05:12","slug":"maptorian-plus-kickstarter-campaign-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/maptorian-plus-kickstarter-campaign-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Maptorian Plus Kickstarter Campaign Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three years ago Alejandro Polanco (who blogs about maps in Spanish at La Cartoteca<\/a>) launched Maptorian<\/a>, a collection of editable vector maps aimed at graphic designers, journalists, teachers, students and others who need to make maps, know how to use applications like Adobe Illustrator but don’t have a GIS background. Now a Kickstarter campaign has launched<\/a> for the improved-expanded-updated sequel, Maptorian Plus. Read Alejandro’s post<\/a> (in Spanish).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three years ago Alejandro Polanco (who blogs about maps in Spanish at La Cartoteca) launched Maptorian, a collection of editable vector maps aimed at graphic designers, journalists, teachers, students and others who need to make… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[340,104,95,339],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-cartography","tag-illustrator","tag-kickstarter","tag-map-design","tag-maptorian","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1832269,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/06\/islario-an-atlas-of-islands\/","url_meta":{"origin":1125,"position":0},"title":"Islario, an Atlas of Islands","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 June 2024","format":"link","excerpt":"Islario, Alejandro Polanco\u2019s latest Kickstarter project, is a collection of 16th- to 19th-century maps of islands\u2014some real, some phantom. \u201cIn Spanish, the word \u2018islario\u2019 means something like a \u201ccompendium of islands\u2019 or an \u2018atlas of islands\u2019. 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