Perhaps this page has some useful links concerning vector-maps of the
world. months ago i surfed to several sites of this page and found some
free data. -but don' t ask me on which site...
http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/phygeo/geodaten.html
Jan.
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Jonathan.
>
> >> - you can resize the window although it does not resize the
> >> map, it's a bit confusing.
>
> > Not so easy to do. I may look into it, but I am not so sure its
> > very easy. That was one of the reasons for including multiple
> > maps, to remove the need to zoom the map in any particular area,
> > and hence remove the need for window resizing.
>
> I'm not sure what you're using to do that project, but our group on
> the B.Sc. Computing here at Aberdeen University, Scotland, had to do
> an auto-zooming map of Aberdeen Harbour as part of the said project.
> The project was done using Tcl/Tk and the zooming was one of the
> easier things about the project.
>
> I do remember that we needed to have the map in vector form, not
> bitmap form, for that to work, and I'm not sure how easy it would be
> to get a map of the world in vector form, but if this was done, then
> it shouldn't be hard to also support maps showing just part of the
> earth, rather than all of it.
>
> Best wishes from Riley.
>
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | There is something frustrating about the quality and speed of Linux |
> | development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is too high, |
> | in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone |
> | else has already done so and is just about to release their patch. |
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
> * ftp://ftp.MemAlpha.cx/pub/rhw/Linux
> * http://www.MemAlpha.cx/kernel.versions.html
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