[Wikitech-l] Maps: An alternate approach

Wed Jan 12 16:44:55 UTC 2005

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Moin,

On Wednesday 12 January 2005 17:10, Magnus Manske wrote:
> During the developers meeting at 21C3, we saw a pretty impressive
> demonstartion of a map-generation software; alas, the underlying data
> was (partially) contradicting itself, and the software consists of
> parts in at least three programming language, all in alpha/beta stages,
> AFAIK.
>
> When I saw someone upload dozens of maps on commons the other day, all
> identical except for a different county marked in red, I though there
> should be something simpler. Along the ideas that I published on meta
> some long time ago, I wrote a PHP script for a simple map generation
> tool. Source: CVS HEAD, "phase3/tools/geo.php", hereby GPL.
>
> *Disclaimer:* This is just proof-of-concept; it would need significant
> work to become useful.

I sense a deja vu here :-)

(I actually toyed with the idea of SVG generation for graphs, but 
postponed that to later once the ideas are more stabilized :)

However, I like your idea - even though I am not in map-making myself.

Best wishes,

Tels

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