Map a la Carte is a web application that allows users to generate maps and aerial photos personalized and located in any location within the national territory, so that it goes from being a cartographic reader to being a designer of your own maps and photos areas, using as a base the National Topographic Map 1:25,000 or 1:50,000 of the IGN, or the aerial photos of the National Plan of Aerial Orthophotography (PNOA).
With an à la carte map, custom maps are created, where the user can:
• Locate and focus on the area of the territory you want;
• Change the scale and add different grids;
• Customize the booklet, title and subtitle;
• Draw points, lines and polygons that can be labeled, or insert other geographic data of their own or directly incorporate the leisure and leisure routes of the CNIG Download Center.
The application offers the possibility to create four products:
1. Quick map: to customize the map in just a few clicks.
2. Elaborated map: the most advanced version and with the most configuration for a traditional map with a sign
3. Poster map: to create an ideal map to frame, without a poster or legend.
4. Photo à la carte: to personalize a poster with the aerial photo of the chosen area.
Once the high-quality PDF has been generated, the user can print it, download it completely free of charge, send a link to another person or order a certain number of paper copies in different finishes to be printed in the House of the Map of A Coruña on normal and satin paper.
You can also request printing in the IGN’s cartographic workshops in other types of finishes, such as photographic paper or in rigid material designed for decoration.
La Casa del Mapa de A Coruña, has made available to customers a help service for the generation of these maps and photos areas, and a printing service at the moment. In this way, exclusive maps or aerial photos are generated, personalized and on demand, with the quality of always.
The application is available at the following link:
To facilitate its use, the application is accompanied by explanatory videos on the process of making maps on demand:
This service opens a wide range of possibilities of use adapted to the needs of users in sports, leisure and leisure activities, civil protection, citizen security, rescue services, etc. By being able to define the fraction of territory that the map will contain, the cartographic background and introduce texts, routes, singular points or areas of interest, etc.
It is a good option to make a special gift, to remember a trip or to promote a business, there are many uses available to everyone.