--- Brion VIBBER brion@pobox.com wrote:
Lars Aronsson wrote:
Magnus Manske wrote:
For a country, city, region, river, lake, mountain
etc. one would type,
say, "[[map:1.2.3:4.5.6]]" to get a rectangular
map. That would be
generated by some free map service (there are
some, though I don't
remember any URL).
Please tell me when you remember the URL.
I dug around some more; the software Caltrop has been using is GMT (Generic Map Tools; http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/) via the on-line map creator at http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/omc_intro.html
With some tweaking, I believe we could get attractive, useful maps (at least at the national level) using the same software, which we can run off our own server so as not to be dependent on a third party which may vanish or cut off service.
Beautiful. I officially change my vote to "I love it".
Stephen G.
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