: How to position cities correctly on a world map??? geolocation markers for Illustrator CC? I recently discovered this awesome third party After Effects plugin called "Locations" It allows you to

@Gail6891361

There is a category of programs called Geograpgic Information Systems, GIS for short. These are CAD/Vector drawing packages that are designed to be suitable for mapmaking. They include a lot of features to deal with data import in form of latitude-longditude coordinates Other featires include well as projection transfornation of data. As such they would be perfect platforms to do this.

Instead of ArcGIS (suggested by Nicolas Tenorio), that is commercial. I suggest using QGIS. Most GIS packages can export to DXF, PDF, (E)PS and even SVG. So getting the data out To illustrator is no problem.

It shouldnt take a unsurmountable effort to learn to use a GIS application if you know anything about CAD or Vector drawimg. Especially if you dont expect to learn all the intricasies of the app you should be up and running in a hour or so.

As an alternate strategy try to find a map that has your data. You can try something like open streetmap and delete the features you do not need. This might be a more conductive approach than trying to pin points in a possibly unknown projection.

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@Caterina889

If I understood your question yo want to marker in a map with vectordata. You can use ArcGIS for this. Then make a PDF out of the map. Maps are produced this way can be too heavy, though.

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