On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:33:10 +0200, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:19:24 -0800 (PST), Richard S. Crawford > <rscrawford@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The elder gods, manifesting through Henry Hartley, recently decreed: > > > On Tue, 29 March 2005 at 10:01 AM Didier said: > > > > > >>> Does anybody know some kind of program in linux that can draw > > >>> custom maps from point A to point B? All parameters should come > > >>> from user input and also the program shoud be able to place some > > >>> nice graphics in the place of houses, buildings and so on... > > >>> > > >>> I want to draw a map to indicate to people how to get to point X. > > >>> But I wanted to make it more lively instead of plainly drawing > > >>> roads and boxes to represent buildings. I want something more > > >>> colorful but do not which to resort to something like gimp! > > > > > > It isn't clear from this if you are looking for something to do some > > > manual drawing in (implied by your mention of GIMP) or if you are trying > > > to automate the process (implied by the first paragraph). If you just > > > want to do freehand drawing, take a look at Inkscape [1]. It's does > > > vector drawing so you can scale your output easily. GIMP is not really > > > designed for this sort of thing. Also, Inkscape uses an XML file format > > > called SVG [2]. > > > > > > If you want to have a map generated programatically, then I'm not really > > > sure. I suppose it depends on what sort of map data you have and what > > > sort of output you want. You could write something that would generate > > > an SVG map based on some kind of map data but without knowing what the > > > data looked like, I wouldn't really know where to start. > > > > If that's what the OP is looking for, then mapserver > > (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/) is one approach that I've played with. If > > that's the route you want to go, though, you're looking at some serious > > time investment in the intricacies and mysteries of GIS. > > > > -- > > Sláinte, > > Richard S. Crawford (AIM: Buffalo2K) > > http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com/catseyeview > > "We live as though the world were how it should be, > > to show it what it can be." > > --"Angel", Season 4 ep. 1 > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > I'm pretty sure that the OP meant to ask: > > Hi, is there a program where I can create my own cusom map of my > neighboorhood by hand? Where I can drag and drop houses, trees, > streets, and the like? My intention is to show my inlaws how to get > from the park to my new house. Yes indeed... that's what I meant. Thanks everybody for all the suggestions but in the end I'm opting for inkscape which is pretty nice for doing this kind of job. And in addition I can import some free graphics from http://openclipart.org/ to inkscape. Cool! -- Cheers, Didier. ------------ Didier F.B Casse | PhD candidate | LiMiNT Beamline Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS), 5 Research Link, Singapore 117603 Email: elprodigioREMOVE_THIS_ANTISPAM_MOJO@xxxxxxxxx| Web: http://ssls.nus.edu.sg | GPG Key 1024D/B3C57D01 2004-06-23
