Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Displaying vector files

2012-05-09 Thread akshay gupta
Thanks Rashad for those links, ill have a look. Akshay On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Mohammed Rashad wrote: > Hi Akshay, > > There is QGIS[1] which does both raster and vector rendering and a lot of > things more that you need. > You can develop a small application using QGIS as library. You n

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Displaying vector files

2012-05-09 Thread Mohammed Rashad
Hi Akshay, There is QGIS[1] which does both raster and vector rendering and a lot of things more that you need. You can develop a small application using QGIS as library. You need to link your application with qgis_core and qgis_gui. There are some nice tutorials written by tim sutton[2]. and QGIS

[OSGeo-Discuss] Displaying vector files

2012-05-09 Thread akshay gupta
Hi all, I am writing an application to load vector maps/shape files using gdal/ogr and display them onto a gui designed using Qt. I am new to dealing with vector files, I am not able to decide how to render them on GUI. Few approaches that come to my mind are: - To convert vector files to raster