Hi Mike, So do you have point locations to render and you'd just like a US wide base map and some sample points?
A good place to start (in terms of polygon base maps) would be to download some of the US Census boundary files of interest: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/bdy_files.html Note: Click on of the categories and then make sure to choose the 'ArcView Shapefile (.shp)' link or download a file with 'shp' in the filename (you'll have trouble converting e00 files). A mapnik tutorial with census data would be a useful thing - I'll consider posting one when I have a moment Dane On Apr 22, 2008, at 7:17 AM, Mike Crowe wrote: > Hi folks, > > I hope n00b questions are received well! I have everything > installed, and was going through the first tutorial. > > Question: I want to render maps of the US with points in specific > locations. How do I get a specific US map? Can somebody gently > guide me? > > (BTW, I won't need much, just some gentle guidance...) > > TIA > Mike > _______________________________________________ > Mapnik-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
