> Once you have a the csv file then ogr2ogr should do the work of > converting to a shapefile.
Perfect. That's the missing link I was looking for. Thank you much for that. :) > It looks like you will need one layer for the plents and another for the > lines between them. > Mapnik currently has fairly limited ability to draw geometric shapes > itself. The best way to draw the points is probably to create icons in > the 4 different colours, each with the spot and the surrounding ring. > Then you'll need to use the ShieldSymbolizer[1] with rules which choose > the right colour icon and specify the text label. > Alternatively you could use a PointSymbolizer + TextSymbolizer to draw > the icon and text separately but the ShieldSymbolizer is probably better > since it does both at the same time. > For the lines between the planets you will need to create a table with > which lines you want to be shown. Then you can render the dashed > appearance using the LineSymbolizer using the stroke-dasharray > feature[2]. > 1: http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/ShieldSymbolizer > 2: http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/LineSymbolizer Shield symbolizer looks like the way to go. It looks like I'll need to create some different styling/shieldSymbolizers for the different zoom levels. That can tackled in a another topic. I found some good resources to start from I think. Time to whip out some CSV! Thanks much for your guidance. Best regards, Chris -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Map-of-fictional-galaxy%3A-What%27s-the-best-way-to-create-shapefile%28s%29-from-x%2Cy%2Cx--tp26869227p26905093.html Sent from the Mapnik - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
