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Hi my fellow Wikipedians, I Have two important questions to ask, please reply:

Background: I been editing the Dominican National Highway System for the past year now and i been trying to improve the articles little by little as i have time and try to find sources. Lately I been stuck at the fact that I don't know what Mapping or Modeling Software to use to create these maps and here is where my questions come along...

1)What Map Software, if any, can i Use to create a series of Standardized Maps for the Dominican highways DR-1, DR-2, DR-3,etc? is there any particular one the group prefers?

2)Is it okay if I choose to use the Same U.S Road Map Standards for the Dominican Republic's NHS. The Standards are convenient and well-established for more than 5,000 maps so I see this as a convenient move...Is that okay?

I'll await a response. Thank you!EdwinCasadoBaez (talk) 16:30, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

1. Most of the people around here are using QuantumGIS/qgis because it's free, unlike AcrGIS that's a commercial product with a hefty licensing fee. There's a whole tutorial for creating maps, but you'll have to find the GIS data for the Dominican Republic.
2. Feel free to use the standards. We don't claim anything exclusive on them.

If you have questions, feel free to pop on IRC and ask us questions. (I don't do maps myself at the moment, but others who do are in the channel.) There are even an easy set of instructions on how to get into the highways IRC channel. Imzadi 1979 → 17:50, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Also, if you have some success finding GIS data and getting QGIS/Inkscape to work for you, please show us the results. I love it when maps are so good people can't believe they're made from freely available data. –Fredddie™ 04:14, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Thank you guys for the support. i'm going to start learning how to deal with QGIS as soon as my left-hand wrist heals up again, i recently fractured it but i'm looking forward to becoming good at this. I'll make sure i show my results :) EdwinCasadoBaez (talk) 06:10, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

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