[Wikipedia-l] Map drawing software, part two

[Magnus Manske]

OK, I went ahead and worked some more on this (no new images to show 
off, yet). But, more info and the complete data set of Bavaria at
    http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Geo
to give you an idea of the internal workings. I'm actually using 
(media)wiki syntax to denote the data, so it stays humanly readable.

And, I now read my data from my local wiki (through URL, action=raw). 
Generating the half-German map takes about 2 seconds.

Tomorrow, I need to work on the parameters to call the thing. As you can 
see, I can already state to draw Hamburg in red. But, I want to see the 
surrounding parts of Europe in one color, Germany in another, and Berlin 
in yet another one. And to draw an extra border around Germany as a 
whole. This will prove tricky.

Also, for drawing parts of Europe, I need more data. And a city drawing 
routine. and some rivers and lakes. And the ocean. Geez, why do I always 
get myself into such a mess ;-)

Magnus