Services
Our services are available primarily to the Shool of Environment and Development staff and postgraduates.
Time in the Cartographic Unit can be booked (usually for a week or multiples thereof) upto three months in advance. This enables all staff to meet publishing deadlines, conference dates and teaching schedules. However, we are aware that there will always be work which cannot be planned in advance and we always retain a degree of flexibility within the schedule to accommodate those last-minute jobs. Our priority is always to get the work done in order to facilitate the smooth running of the teaching commitments and research activities of the School.
We are happy to provide advice and practical assistance regarding the preparation of maps, graphics, publications, slides and OHPs, publicity materials, displays, etc. to staff, postgraduates and undergraduates.
All work is backed-up and archived for future use.
Our range of work includes:
- Colour and black-and-white maps and diagrams
- Prepared to publication standard from author's originals, previously published material, data sets, field surveys, rough notes, or just ideas suitable for publication in books, journals and periodicals or for teaching and research purposes. The same type of material can also be produced as OHPs and slides in either black and white or colour for teaching and conference presentations. Alternatively, digital output of any graphic can be incorporated into a Powerpoint presentation.
- Multi-media mapping
- Output from mapping projects can be transferred to the Flash format and can be enhanced with audio and video.
We can produce "mashups" using Google Maps or Virtual Earth APIs. - Graphs
- We can produce or enhance graphs from Excel and SPSS to publication standard from your original data files. We can produce graphs in black-and-white, suitable for publication, or in colour suitable for use in PowerPoint, 35mm slides or colour publications. We can re-draw previously published graphs.
- Illustration
- We can design logos for Research Centres and Conferences, produce artwork for book covers, In the past we have produced pen and ink/pencil sketches of archaeological artefacts, mammals, birds and microscope slides.
- Posters, displays
- Visualisation of papers for conferences, poster presentations, etc, in full colour upto A0 with encapsulation.
- Desktop Publishing
- We have full Desktop Publishing capabilities (Adobe InDesign) for the production of promotional material, reports, working papers, field course manuals and journal camera-ready copy. Again, digital output in pdf format is an option for print and internet publication.
- Web design and management
- We can optimise any of our output suitable for use on the web. The Cartographic Unit have designed and implemented many websites, An extensive knowledge of XHTML, CSS/CSSP ensures our sites meet the latest SENDA (Special Educational Needs and Disability Act) requirements. Our sites conform to a minimum W3C Level Double-A Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
- Scanning
- Flat copy up to A3 in full colour. 35mm slides and negatives up to 4,000 dpi, with images saved in the appropriate format. OCR software can retrieve text from printed copy and save it in a format suitable for word processing.