On Tuesday 10 December 2002 14:04, Martin Gruner wrote: > > So I guess I'll end up doing it then eventually. I'm wondering though how > > much of this should be left up to front ends and how much should be > > handled at the library level.
> We should probably look at existing solutions. Does Logos have a system > like this? Maybe there is some opensource project that we could use for > this purpose? There are a number of mapping packages out there, with various levels of complexity. See the www.freegis.org site for links to many mapping software packages. I use a couple of mapping packages here -- GRASS, and GMT. GRASS is overkill for simple maps, though -- it is a full-scale Geographic Information System. GMT might be a good fit, and produces PostScript output. It can do various projections, zooms, scales, rotations, colorings, etc., given relatively simple vector and raster format files. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11
