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Re: New World LUG Map demo
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Sun, 30 Mar 2003 09:28:11 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Ken Koleda writes:
I have been recently working with a program called SVGMapper.  Well, it's an
extension really.. an extension to ArcView from ESRI.

Here is a test sample:
http://rougeriver.com/svgmaps/cso_comp/map.htm

I've been playing around with an open-source program from
http://citizencomputing.org/mapmakers.asp.  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 please post a
link?  I've been using data from Penn State's site:
http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/ but unfortunately that data is too high
resolution to use for world maps. The resulting svg files end up being huge
(several megs).

Andy Westrate



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  Re: New World LUG Map demo
 
(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 12-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: New World LUG Map demo
 
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 (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)

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