Design to Data
Adobe Illustrator
Data Extraction

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Geospatial Data Design

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Not in GIS

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Mike Foster, GISP
MIT Urban Studies and Planning
Civic Data Design Lab
FH GeoGraphics
@mjfoster83
Follow Along:
mjfoster83.github.io/nacis-2014

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Rebuild by Design
Digital Matatus
City Digits
Data Action Blog (Coming Soon)

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Graphic Design and Geographic Data

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The Background...
and Motivation

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The Project

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The Result...

Python Based Data Extraction/
Conversion Tool

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The Process...

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What is in an AI file?

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Glorified
Postscript

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Parsing
Based on Flags

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Loop
and write to File

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Georeferencing
'Gotcha!'

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Point Translation
and Conversion

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One more Gotcha
No Curves :(
Convert to Lines

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Other Needs

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Open and Sort in ArcGIS

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Attributes

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It works!
Graphically Created GeoData

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Landscape Architects
Graphic Designers
Non-GIS Users

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Future Work
PyQGIS
GDAL
SVG/Inkscape

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Mike Foster
Twitter: @mjfoster83
Email: mjfoster@mit.edu
www.graphicarto.com
Project Github Repo:
www.github.com/mjfoster83/ai-extractor

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