Puneet,
I'm hoping that (someday?) high quality cartography WILL
be point-and-click. The three apps I looked at come pretty
close:
uDig - sophisticated, complicated GUI; focus on GIS
not cartography
QGIS - simple GUI, a print composer, but features
(e.g. a real graticule) missing
gvSIG - look and feel of ArcView 3.x (the good and the
bad), but no graticule
I think Paul Ramsey said it best in the Directions Mag
interview
(http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2517&tr
v=1):
"The first project to produce a stable and complete ArcView
3 replacement will gobble up a huge user share, and become
the default application for building the "high end" analysis
and cartography functionality."
Brent Fraser
GeoAnalytic Inc.
Calgary, Alberta
----- Original Message -----
From: "P Kishor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 6:24 AM
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is there an Open Source
software application thatwill draw a graticule on a map?
> On 9/6/07, Brent Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ,,
> > Yikes! Is National-Topographic-Series quality
cartography
> > dead? Am I destined to print only pastel polygon
"diagrams"
> > on letter size paper if I adopt Open Source? ;)
>
> Write an emai to Markus Neteler and ask him for samples of
stuff he
> has produced with Grass, a real GIS. The quality will blow
you away.
> Granted, I have not seen that stuff on a large piece of
paper, but
> even on the screen, it looks gorgeous. It is probably not
easy to
> produce that kind of stuff, but good quality stuff never
is point and
> click.
>
> (MapServer is not a GIS... it says so on the box it comes
in).
> >
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