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Spike wrote:Why would they hand draw that map when at the end of the expedition it was already drawn up in Therion?
Spike wrote:What I ask young cartographers, that I hope will read this thread, is to carefully consider thier own skills, what they want the map to look like, and how much time they have to invest, and what kind of skills they wish to develop before learning one(or more) of the various ways to make a map.
Spike wrote:I can do all the things that Therion does and I have never written one line of code to do it. ... So before you start down the Therion route, new user, think to yourself, do I want to learn a programming language in order to draw a map?
Spike wrote: Users don't "debug" files they are manipulating.
Martin Sluka wrote:There is very big misunderstanding that therion is tool to draw maps.
Spike wrote:You are correct I can't do all the things Therion does. My work flow does 2D clipping when morphing. That's it. Everything else is available. Seriously, that's it. I do all the rest. Even the plain text aspects. Even the 3D models. Even change symbols. Easily without debugging, perhaps programmers need to read Adam Smith?
Crockett wrote:I admire Martin's passionate advocacy but he has to put a lot of lipstick on the pig.
Martin Sluka wrote:Crockett wrote:I admire Martin's passionate advocacy but he has to put a lot of lipstick on the pig.
Mat 7:6
Crockett wrote:...and since we are exchanging biblical metaphorical references:
GroundquestMSA wrote:I'm just amazed that we're citing scripture over cave survey software.
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