This software is used to make maps like those on
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_first_useful_map
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_polygon_map
It's not all the software I have here.
Queries in city names database are being made separately,
here only "cities2.pl" with cities for the first useful map is attached.
This software needs:
* absolutely most recent version of ImageMagick (5.5.7-10)
5.5.7-9 is not recent enough, it contains very serious bug
* Ruby and RMagick
* Geo::E00 (attached)
And data:
* NASA's BlueMarble (raster background)
ftp://mitch.gsfc.nasa.gov:21/pub/stockli/bluemarble/
* CIA World DataBank II in text format (rivers)
http://www.evl.uic.edu/pape/data/WDB/
* UNEP/GRID data (boundaries / polygons)
http://www.grid.unep.ch/data/grid/gnv19.php
I'm not terribly certain about copyright status of this.
If it's bad, we always have 1988 free data and
only a couple of borders to digitalize.
It should be possible to run it without BlueMarble
or rivers data if these features aren't used.
Boundary data is necessary.