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Todd, A few questions and comments. - What is your source for the country polygons? - You are coding all the map generation? You have your own code writing the SVG? I have been recently working with a program called SVGMapper. Well, it's an (...) (21 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) A public domain ESRI .e00 file from GRID or NOAA, I forget which. (...) ya (...) I realize how popular ArcView is, but I avoided it because I need things to run on Linux and FreeBSD (and also because of licensing issues, since it's a (...) (21 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Many years ago (maybe 1986) I wrote some of the simple projection routines for a little mapping project.. I think it was some sort of independent study. While I was unaware of the Free BSD and linux issues, I wasn't intending to propose ArcView due (...) (21 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Todd, (...) I'm happy that you point that two OS. I've tried to have SVG working under Linux RedHat 7.3 and Mozilla 1.0.1 without success. The plugins that are on Adobe web page are from 2001 and have been developped for Mozilla 0.99 and they (...) (21 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) (URL) Currently the program is pretty basic (it only supports ArcInfo Ungenerate files). I've copied the code and modified it a bit to do several different map projections. Todd, If you remember where you got the country data from, will you (...) (21 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm almost positive it was from the GRID website in Geneva, Switzerland. The files I downloaded are gnv029.zip (world city population database) and gnv019.zip (world coastline data) if that helps. The map data is given in a horribly designed (...) (21 years ago, 12-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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