Re: [Coposys-dev] Interesting tools that might be usefull

[Olivier Berger]

Olivier Berger a écrit :
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I just notticed a couple interesting tools :
> 
> rmap (http://www.reza.net/rmap/) :
> "Simply put, rmap is a package that will allow you to generate images of
> the earth from a distance or fairly zoomed in. The code is a small C
> binary that reads a datafile of vectors to generate the image. The
> actual image is generated from the libgd library, which will either
> generate a gif, png, or jpeg based on the version of libgd and auxiliary
> libs you have. Please see the libgd documentation regarding any
> auxiliary libs your version might require. I've tried to make the code
> be intelligent when you run configure, but I've not done much testing of
> it yet. "
> 

And today I discovered Karte_cgi - map_cgi (http://www.ma3s.de/karte/)
which seems to be a very interesting piece of software for coposys, as
it can allow us to create complex graphical representations.

I'll try to elaborate on this.

More later.
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