Eastern Ramsau Tourist Map

Cartography by: Marco Tosic, Peilun Yuan and Nuzhat Tabassum Nawshin

Tools: QGIS, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

This panoramic map was created as a group proect for the Alpine Cartographic Field School 2018 at Ramsau, Austria, organized by the Technical University of Dresden. The aim was to create a panoramic landscape depiction for touristic purposes. Our map shows Eastern Ramsau region and a part of the Dachstein mountain range that spreads from Scheichenspitze to Luserwand. The point of the panoramic view was from Guttenberghaus.

For our design theme, we targeted Chinese tourists as we observed many tourists from China and adjacent areas at Ramsau. Hence, we designed place icons that relate to the Chinese culture to highlight interesting landmarks and activities of this region as well as accommodation options close to nature. The basemap was given a light color palette to set a calm and relaxed mood while the POIs were highlighted using bright red and yellow colors having the theme in mind. We also added Chinese translation along with English names and description. We used Google Maps, the schladming-dachstein website, promo material and maps provided from Ramsau am Dachstein. Landscape panorama in 3D was made in QGIS using Google Satellite. Then Photoshop was used to make special effects on the original image by applying watercolor filter. Illustrator was used to complete the design of the base map adding roads and hiking trails, and finally, to add all necessary icons, text and legend to complete the map.