On 2010-12-22 23:15-0000 Andrew Ross wrote: > Can I put libgdal on the table as one likely candidate for a mapping > library. It provides support for most of the main raster and vector > GIS formats. I've not programmed it directly, but it provides > most of the file read / write support for GRASS which is one of the > most developed free GIS packages. Homepage is http://www.gdal.org/ .
That does look like a good candidate. A quick check at the website reveals a huge list of vector and bitmapped map formats that it can read. Do you know anything about the kinds of data that can be obtained from libgdal? Full-color map images would be fairly useless to us (except as a background for a plot). We could do some interesting things with gray-scale image data via plimage; 3D topographic data via plcont or plshades; and outline map data via a changed API for plmap. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
