Montana road and towns vector map.
Source:
Cities based on figures provided by the US Census 2022.
File formats:
pdf: 8 MB; Adobe Illustrator CS5: 7 MB
The map can be displayed in three ways. (You only need to turn 3 layers on or off for this)
1. As a western region of the United States
2.As a western region of the USA but with separate coloring Montana
3.Only the state of Montana is cutout of its surroundings.
The map shows the names of 624 Montana settlements, as well as the names of river lines and lakes with names if their area is larger than 2 sqmile.
The main roads are indicated by different colors. The interstate, highway, and stateway are marked with different colors, and the road numbers are also marked with the usual symbols.
File formats: pdf: 8 MB; Adobe Illustrator CS5: 7 MB
Layers
- Montana outline- border
- white background for cutout
- frame
- Montana 624 city name
- Canada – towns name
- Canada rivers name
- City name – outside of Montana
- Interstate shields
- U.S. highway shields
- State highway shields
- U.S. county name
- Montana towns signs
- Canada city signs
- Canada major roads – lines
- Canada major rivers – lines
- Cities and towns signs outside of Montana
- U.S. roads – lines
- U.S. lakes- polygons
- Area outside of Montana
- Montana counties
The Montana road and towns vector map file in vector format enable the user organise level of structuring of map.
A vector file (ai, pdf) has flexible tools for displaying elements of maps
- you can discrete or arbitrary scaling map
- performing group operation with selected features
- changing the orders of displaying layers
- switching in/off displaying os any layers
- changing attributes of selected object ( recolour, modify outline thick, transparency, symbols)
- adding or changing features of any items, (i.e. font type)
- copying and moving particular shapes
- merging different shapes (i.e. counties)
- adding, removing cartography symbols
For editing ai, pdf file use the most common Adobe Illustrator (version 10 or higher) or CorelDRAW (version 10 or higher). If you don't have Adobe Illustrator or Corel you can choose
free open source Inkscape - 57 MB -(Windows, Mac, Linux platform ) or Scribus (Windows, Mac, Linux (54 MB)