Brent Fraser kirjoitti:
Bruno,
Have a go with my favorite Canadian topographic map
(NTS:082H04, "Waterton Lakes" ):
Shapefiles:
http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/canvec/50k_shp/082/h/canvec_082h04_shp.zip
Thanks for the pointer, that's a nice dataset. Opening these 39 layers
makes me ask why there's no style information? Pardon my ignorance on
digital cartography, but is it because of standards or something else?
How do Arc* tools do it?
I think that's one crucial point in this thread. We all do have our
favorite software and want-to-have-software for creating a map or
geovisualization from this. Maybe a common goal would be to write a
specification how to create a map from this data -- note that there is
an infinite number of maps that one could create. I'd like to have a
file or files associated with datasets like this, that I'd just open in
my favorite software and it'd show me a map and not data.
The second thing would be to have a free OSGeo map symbol set, which the
map description file would refer to and the software use when creating
the map.
Do I make any sense?
Cheers,
Ari
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Prof. Ari Jolma
Geoinformatiikka / Geoinformatics
Teknillinen Korkeakoulu / Helsinki University of Technology
tel: +358 9 451 3886 address: POBox 1200, 02015 TKK, Finland
Email: ari.jolma at tkk.fi URL: http://www.tkk.fi/~jolma
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