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Avenza Releases Geographic Imager 6.7 for Adobe Photoshop

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Toronto, ON, September 27, 2023 – Avenza Systems Inc., producers of the Avenza Maps® app for mobile devices and geospatial extensions for Adobe Creative Cloud®, including MAPublisher® for Adobe Illustrator®, is pleased to announce the release of Geographic Imager® version 6.7 for Adobe Photoshop®. This version offers full compatibility with Adobe Photoshop 2024 (version 25), and also includes some performance improvements and bug fixes.

Geographic Imager for Adobe Photoshop delivers an all-encompassing solution to import, edit, and export geospatial images such as aerial and satellite imagery. Work with digital elevation models, GeoTIFFs, and other popular GIS image formats, using Adobe Photoshop features such as transparencies, filters, cropping, and image adjustments, while maintaining georeferencing and support for hundreds of coordinate systems and projections.

Users require a valid Adobe Creative Cloud subscription and a compatible operating system to utilize the improvements and enhancements offered in Geographic Imager v6.7. For questions and information on how compatibility requirements may affect your organization, please contact our Support Centre.

Geographic Imager v6.7 is immediately available and is free of charge to all current Geographic Imager Maintenance Program members and starts at US$379 for non-maintenance upgrades. New fixed licenses start at US$809. Geographic Imager Basic Edition licenses start at US$119. Academic, floating, and volume license pricing is also available. Visit www.avenza.com/geographic-imager for more information.

More about Avenza Systems Inc.

Avenza Systems Inc. is an award-winning, privately held corporation that provides cartographers and GIS professionals with powerful software tools to make better maps. Avenza also offers the mobile Avenza Maps app to sell, purchase, distribute, and use maps on iOS and Android devices.
For further information contact: +1 416-487-5116 – info@avenza.com – www.avenza.com

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Maps for Morocco Earthquake Search and Rescue

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Toronto, ON, September 18th, 2023 –

An earthquake registered in Morocco approximately 72 kilometres (44.7 miles) southwest of Marrakech on Friday September 8, 2023, devastating the country and being felt far and wide. The quake had a magnitude of 6.8 and state media reported Monday that at least 2,862 people have been killed and 2,562 have been injured from its effects.

Avenza Map Store and Search and Rescue Maps

Immediately, Search and Rescue teams mounted efforts to help those trapped or injured and developed a series of maps to aid in those efforts. The Avenza Maps team worked with Reliefweb and uploaded the maps to the Avenza Map Store for worldwide and free distribution and use on mobile devices using the Avenza Maps app. Reliefweb works to keep humanitarian efforts informed, and combining their maps with Avenza Maps app software allows Search and Rescue teams to know their location and collect data offline without cell reception or wifi.

More about Avenza Systems Inc.

Avenza Systems Inc. is an award-winning, privately held corporation that provides cartographers and GIS professionals with powerful software tools to make better maps. Avenza also offers the mobile Avenza Maps app to sell, purchase, distribute, and use maps on iOS and Android devices. For further information contact:  416-487-5116 – info@avenza.com – www.avenza.com

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UC Spotlight: Mapping in the Wild

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Getting started with MAPublisher can be a daunting task, especially if you don’t have a background in cartography. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what the staff at SafariBookings, the largest marketplace for African safaris, was facing. But with the help of Red Geographics they were able to quickly learn how to use MAPublisher to create their own maps. At the Avenza User Conference in May of this year, Hans van der Maarel, the owner of Red Geographics presented to us how this amazing feat was achieved. Hans is a long-time partner of Avenza and user of MAPublisher and Geographic Imager. He uses the products for a wide range of cartographic projects for international clients and offers training courses and consultancy projects aimed at developing workflows for clients. In addition to that, he is currently a board member of NACIS.

By using MAPublisher together with open data, Hans and his team were able to swiftly get SafariBookings up and running and producing their very own maps. They worked with two members of the SafariBookings team, both of whom had previous graphic design and Adobe Creative Cloud experience, but were not experienced with GIS or cartography. Red Geographics offered them a personal training plan and helped them source data allowing them to start producing high-quality maps in less than a month.

Check out the video of Hans’s full presentation at the Avenza UC 2023!

About Avenza UC

The Avenza User Conference is an annual free virtual conference for map makers, GIS enthusiasts, and geospatial professionals worldwide who share a common interest in Avenza mapping technology. The conference includes a combination of virtual sessions led by experts who will share their experiences with Avenza mapping products.

The Avenza User Conference is an annual event that grows each year with incredible speakers and participants. Get inspired by mapping and industry professionals by joining us for #AvenzaUC2024. Register here for next year’s conference taking place on May 9th, 2024.

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