At 11:23 11/29/2005 -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote: >Michael O'Keefe wrote: >> Actually it's the opposite. >> Digital maps are EXTREMELY hard to come by, BECOZ of the (handheld) GPS >> market. They pay a LOT for those maps. It's why Garmin (for example) is > >I think you misunderstand. I understand that Garmin et al protect their >maps. I mean that it should be possible to generate our own public >domain map. There needs to be a mapping project. Someone with some GIS >knowledge needs to set up a database whereby we can all note the GPS >coordinates of all our streets and landmarks and everything that anyone >would care about and put it into a database which can be used to >generate maps.
The GRASS GIS system <http://grass.itc.it/index.php> has been around quite awhile and has lots of flexibility. It can use the PostgreSQL database for data storage, and with the GIS extentions for PostgreSQL could be what your looking for. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
