Hello, I made a commandline tool for quickly generating simple maps from shapefiles and other OGR-compatible vector data sources. It's really a toy as it is, but I have found it useful in educational settings for dashing off a map for in-class activities, quizzes, exams, and for my own research. It's on Github:
https://github.com/runderwood/vfr It relies on libcairo, libgdal, and liblua. The Lua interpreter is embedded to allow for programmatic styling of features. For example: https://github.com/runderwood/vfr/blob/master/etc/style2.lua I'd like to add more options for point geometries, possibly labels, and maybe even some simple legend stuff. As I do most of my work from the command line in Linux, it's nice to be able to munge some data in shapefiles and crank out a passable map as a .png without resorting to heavy, full-featured graphical mapping tools (or R). Perhaps it might be of use to someone on the list. As far as I know, it only builds on Debian/Ubuntu Linux. Cheers, Reed _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
