Re: 1km or 2km physical world map

Jens Meier wrote:
> However, I've got no clue about how to create a coloured (physical) map...
> But probably this is already OT and probably there's a better-suited NG
> than this one for my questions (comp.infosystems.gis).
> If I get no answers there, I'll come back to this NG.

have a look at FreeGIS (http://freegis.org/)
They list all kinds of free GIS software

>> On Linux, I used ogr2ogr (http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/index.html)
>> with ogdi (http://ogdi.sourceforge.net/)
>> to convert all layers to shape-files
>> and then thuban (http://thuban.intevation.org/)
>> to view the data.
>> (the programs are available for Windows too)
>
>
> Before downloading and installing all of these programs I'd like to ask
> you:
> With the programs you mention, is it (easily) possible to create a
> simple physical world map (colored elevations) out of VPF data? And then
> save / export this map to a raster format?

gdal/ogr is a translator geospatial data formats and uses ogdi to read
VPF (the vmap format)
it should be possible to generate bitmap images just by this combination
(but it's just a set of cmd line programs)

Almost all GIS programs understand the shape format

thuban is just an interactive map viewer

frank
.

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