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Friends,
I have been invited to a workshop in Paris on common use licensing of
scientific data products. The workshop is jointly organized by CODATA,
GBIF, and Science Commons, and will be held at the Sorbonne on Sep 24,
25. I am writing this
Markus,
Many thanks for the info. What I'm looking for is a
relatively simple GUI mapping application I can recommend to
casual cartographers (in this case geologists), and I think
Grass may be too big in this case.
I see that the development of the [more native] Windows
port of Grass
I should have included these links in my earlier post.
http://www.inkscape.org/
http://www.scribus.net/
http://openjump.org/wiki/show/Printing+in+high-resolution
http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:How_to_draw_a_map
Landon
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Landon,
It's an interesting problem. From my perspective, a map
without a graticule, scale bar, and projection statement
(with parameter values!) is just a diagram (kind of like a
tiff without geotiff tags or shapefile without a .prj file).
It can be useful, but don't try to integrate any
Brent,
I am not sure ArcView or its open source replacement can produce the
kind of stuff Markus has been producing (maybe it can, just that I
haven't seen any). Most, really, really good cartographic output, the
kind you can print at 1500 dpi on a Scitex printer at 8 feet by 20
feet requires a
On 9/7/07, P Kishor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brent,
I am not sure ArcView or its open source replacement can produce the
kind of stuff Markus has been producing (maybe it can, just that I
haven't seen any). Most, really, really good cartographic output, the
kind you can print at 1500 dpi on
Puneet,
You're right; my goal is the 600dpi, 36 inch wide paper
cartography. Basically, the kind of map you can produce in
an hour or two (with the appropriate software and a $5000 HP
plotter). This I think should be within the scope of Open
Source GIS, while the pre-press/mass
Brent Fraser wrote:
So to focus my investigation I started the week with a
question: Using the Canadian federal government CanVec
topographic vectors, how close to creating a printed
National Topographic Map could I get using an Open Source
GUI-based desktop GIS application?
The answers:
Dave,
Good point. My intent was to see if anyone else was
interested Topo map style output and to gather any
easily-transfered knowledge (and I got some great pointers,
thank you everone!) about the Open Source projects out
there. The lack of graticule implementation is just a
curious hole in
