On Friday 20 February 2004 05:54, Delirium wrote:
Ideally we would simply import a lot of GIS data and
auto-generate maps
based on it ("i want a mercatur projection from this latitude/longitude
to this latitude/longitude, with cities over 1m people labeled), but
auto-generated maps, at least with freely-available software,
unfortunately look pretty terrible. There's a few scattered around on
Wikipedia, though I can't seem to find one at the moment, and they all
look like the sort of thing you might have expected a computer-generated
map to look like circa 1982.
There's a Mapmaking Expedition on Wikitravel. So far there are two programs
(one's locked in my laptop hard drive until I get the laptop back, the
other's by Yosemite) and a few maps. Both programs take lat/long data and
produce an SVG file, which we then convert to PNG with Sodipodi.
phma