I'm impressed...
IIRC, this is the second major content generation system you've put
together. It seems that there are many of these kinds of systems that
may be implemented in the future. SVG graphics, Lilypond music, maps,
TeX, etc. are all things that people would like to see, and are all
the type of thing whose content is based on text.
It seems reasonable to me to say that we shouldn't add new tags for
every one of these systems, but should make them all be defined as
"text based media". Then, they should be editable in their own page,
which should give a radio button indicating which rendering modules
are available (math, lilypond, SVG, map).
I recognize that it is easier to have mathematical equations inline in
most cases instead of giving each it's own page. Perhaps this could
be solved with a tag like <text_based_media:math>\nabla \partial
dx</text_based_media> or the like.
jason
Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
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.
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