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Moin,
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 17:10, Magnus Manske wrote:
During the developers meeting at 21C3, we saw a pretty impressive demonstartion of a map-generation software; alas, the underlying data was (partially) contradicting itself, and the software consists of parts in at least three programming language, all in alpha/beta stages, AFAIK.
When I saw someone upload dozens of maps on commons the other day, all identical except for a different county marked in red, I though there should be something simpler. Along the ideas that I published on meta some long time ago, I wrote a PHP script for a simple map generation tool. Source: CVS HEAD, "phase3/tools/geo.php", hereby GPL.
*Disclaimer:* This is just proof-of-concept; it would need significant work to become useful.
I sense a deja vu here :-)
(I actually toyed with the idea of SVG generation for graphs, but postponed that to later once the ideas are more stabilized :)
However, I like your idea - even though I am not in map-making myself.
Best wishes,
Tels
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