Photoshop Map Art Basic Map with Tilemill and Mapzen
In this Photoshop Tutorial I'll show you how to create maps that you can import into Photoshop to later style with various colors and layer styles to make map art. You can turn your hometown or college town into map art. This is the basic reference tutorial for my upcoming Photoshop Map Art series of tutorials.
We will use an open source application called TileMill to style a basic map of Ames, Iowa using Openstreetmap data aggregated by Mapzen.com.
**UPDATE: Mapzen closed most services February 1, 2018. So updated shapefiles for Metro-Extracts as well as custom extracts won't be available. As an alternative, I recommend the open source Hot Export Tool by the Humanitarian OpenStreetmap Team. I have made a tutorial on this channel on how get the shapefiles you need with the Hot Export Tool
Hot Export Tool -as replacement for Mapzen Metro Extracts
• Hot Export Tool tutorial - as replacement ...
I really like the Hot Export Tool. Not only does it allow you to visually expand or shrink the shapefile's boundary, but it allows you to reduce the amount of features to only the ones you choose.
These two advantages allow for efficient shapefiles that are only as large as necessary to get the job done.
Then we will export streets, city boundaries, water objects and other objects to Photoshop as separate svg files,
We will embed all the svg files as separate layers in a Photoshop psd file. That way we will later be able to style the roads, land, and water and background as we desire. I have been developing styles for the maps such as basic color style, modified cut-map, wood inlay, and many designs.
I will use a different style or design for every new Map Art tutorial. Stay tuned.
This tutorial was made using Photoshop CC, however if you have older versions of Photoshop, I have provided some tips on how to use png files for your exports instead of svg files.
If you want to follow along with the tutorial, here is the Ames Iowa Carto-CSS code used in the TileMill editor for this project. You can copy or paste all or parts of it into Tilemill if you wish:
Map {
background-color:#8f6c0d;
}
//large roads
#lines [highway='motorway'],
#lines [highway='motorway_link'],
#lines [highway='trunk'],
#lines [highway='trunk_link']
#lines[highway='primary_link'],
#lines[highway='primary'],
#lines [highway='secondary'],
#lines [highway='tertiary']
{
line-width: 2;
line-color:black;
line-smooth:1;
line-cap:round;
}
//small roads
#lines [highway='unclassified'],
#lines [highway='residential']
{
line-width: 1.2;
line-color:black;
line-smooth:1;
line-cap:round;
}
//airport runways
#lines [aeroway='runway'],
#lines [aeroway='taxiway']{
line-width: 1.5;
line-color:black;
line-smooth:1;
line-cap:round;
}
//rivers
#lines[waterway='riverbank']
{
line-smooth:1;
line-width: 2;
line-color:#1098b0;
}
//Ames city bound
#polygons[name='Ames']{
polygon-opacity:1;
polygon-fill:#d19e13;
}
IF YOU ARE NOT SEEING POLYGONS OR LINES IN TILEMILL I have placed an 11 point procedure in the comments for this video.
TileMill Link
https://tilemill-project.github.io/ti...
Mapzen Link (Mapzen has since closed) use Hot Export Tool link : https://export.hotosm.org/ )
https://mapzen.com/data/metro-extracts/
Openstreetmap Link
https://www.openstreetmap.org
©OpenStreetMap contributors
licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL)
https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/...
Cartography licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license (CC BY-SA)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
This video was made for instructional and educational purposes. In it I teach people how to use Adobe Photoshop to make interesting designs. No copyrighted materials were used in this video.