combine images (not a panorama)

Rudy49 · Jul 19, 2014

Hello

For some time now I work on some historical maps with a GIS program.
That program has one bad habit, the only output on paper is on A4 (30x21 cm)paper, to make a bigger one you have to glue these A4 sheets together, or make a digital output, still on A4 and join them digital together.
My problem now is that the photo edditing software I use let me only join 3 sheets together before it brakes down.
My question to you is, I'm looking for some sotware that lets me join these sheets together, it has to be a small program, so that mmory usage is for the drawings and not for the program.
All the stitching programs I have seen wont do, they put all the sheets on top of each other and I get some sort of moder art, but not a complete map.

The two drawings on top here are a sample from a map I work on, they have to be joined together, no overlap.

Greetings Rudy

snowbear · Jul 19, 2014

What GIS software are you using? Is it possible your printer limits the map size?

I use ESRI ArcGIS and regularly print 42" x 60" (106cm x 152cm) on a large plotter.

Rudy49 · Jul 19, 2014

Hi snowbear

Thanks for your reaction

#1 - What GIS software are you using?
#2 - Is it possible your printer limits the map size?

#1 - The software is a Dutch product called Haza21, the core of the program is a relational database for family research, original a DOS genealogy program, you can still use it for genealogy but it is now as a windows program much bigger, any kind of research concerning people you can do with it, and it has a GIS module original made for making maps using our landowners archives, well I do everything with it for wich it was not mend to be used. every item I draw hs a starting and an ending date, so you can walk tru time on the map, so it is perfect making a historical map.

#2 - becouse of its origin in DOS it still prints on A4, the programmer started it while being a student in computer science, now he runs a software company, but in his spare time he is still working alone on his Hazadata as the original name was or is. In comparising the profesional GIS software it is an inexpensive program, but I cant afford a profesional one, and we have been bugging him to make bigger than A4 printing posible, and maybe one day it will, but now I have to do with A4 prints.

Regards Rudy