Hi Jome, There's many options depending on what you actually want to do.
Shapelib is an option if you want to create shapefiles programmatically. If you simply want to create a dataset by drawing shapes and filling in attributes, you can also try some simple GIS like QGIS, uDig or OpenJump (these three are free software). See: * http://www.qgis.org/ (this one has my preference) * http://udig.refractions.net/ * http://www.openjump.org/wiki/show/HomePage About gathering existing shapefile, I can't give much advise. Unfortunately, public geographic data is not common, especially for specialized domain such as yours. It usually possible to build correct basemaps using the VMAP dataset. Thematic data are sometime provided by institutions: * http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/dataservice/ * http://data.un.org/ The vast majority of raw geographic datasets, though, is not published (as in freely and publicly available on the web). To find data relevant to oil fields in Nigeria, you may consider asking to national institutions or companies. Hope it helps, Gilles Jome Akpoduado wrote: > Thanks Bruno... > Gosh! It's a whole new world, this mapping thing. So much to grasp. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruno B Caponi [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 1:07 PM > To: Jome Akpoduado > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Mapnik-users] Where can I get shapefiles? > > Tou can use ShapeLib (http://shapelib.maptools.org/) to create its yours > shape files. > > More specifically "ShapeLib Tools": > (http://shapelib.maptools.org/shapelib-tools.html) > > dbfcreate, dbfadd, shpcreate and shpadd. > > Bruno Caponi > > -----"Jome Akpoduado" <[email protected]> wrote: ----- > > ======================= > To: <[email protected]> > From: "Jome Akpoduado" <[email protected]> > Date: 20/08/2009 02:09AM > Subject: [Mapnik-users] Where can I get shapefiles? > ======================= > Hi, > > I'm looking for datasources for maps I'd like to serve, specifically maps > of > Africa showing current oil fields. How can I get such? And how can I build > my own shapefiles? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Jome. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
