Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-13 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Bruno Lowagie wrote: All I need is a zip file with limited data of, for instance, a city. Any city will do. As long is I just get the raw vector data and a small explanation of how to use it. What I'd like to do with that data, is to provide some examples like this one: http://itext.ugent.be/pe

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-13 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Jachym Cepicky wrote: www.openstreetmap.org The site isn't working for me. "While trying to retrieve the URL: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/ The following error was encountered: * Read Error The system returned: (104) Connection reset by peer An error condition occurred while reading d

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-13 Thread Jachym Cepicky
www.openstreetmap.org j Bruno Lowagie píše v Po 14. 04. 2008 v 07:26 +0200: > Bruno Lowagie wrote: > > As soon as I have the time, I'll make you some examples. > > My main problem is that I haven't been on a GIS project since 1997. > Can somebody provide me with some (completely free!) sample da

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-13 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Bruno Lowagie wrote: As soon as I have the time, I'll make you some examples. My main problem is that I haven't been on a GIS project since 1997. Can somebody provide me with some (completely free!) sample data: - vector data with streets and street names in multiple languages - vector data of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-13 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: For me the question of PDF is not limited by number of pages, or options that PDF offers, but whether or not it is an efficient format for sharing cartographic information - for which, so far, I'd say it fails miserably. How many times have I went to a municipal m

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-13 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
On 13-Apr-08, at 9:23 AM, Bruno Lowagie wrote: If you make the map in PDF, you could provide the legend as a floating annotation that can be moved around by the user. If you are using OCG, you also have the Optional Content panel that can be used as a legend and that can be used to make certain l

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-13 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Dave Patton wrote: Actually, dealing with "the legend", or the contents of the entire map collar, is non-trivial, however, a library that can render the content within a map's neat line has all the tools necessary to be able to render the map's collar. The difference may be that there would need

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-13 Thread Dave Patton
Ari Jolma wrote: Markus Neteler kirjoitti: Dear OSGeo, I would like to launch the idea of an "OSGeo Cartographic Library" 3) a mechanism to allow plugins that add legends etc. on the map 3) is rather straight-forward Actually, dealing with "the legend", or the contents of the entire map

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-13 Thread Markus Neteler
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Christopher Schmidt < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:18:48AM +0300, Ari Jolma wrote: > > I'm still very much interested in this. Cairo would provide a single API > > to render to an image buffer, on PDF and others. It has good support for >

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-13 Thread Traian Stanev
Hello Ari, > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:discuss- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ari Jolma > Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:19 AM > To: OSGeo Discussions > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library > > Markus Neteler kirjoitti: > > Dear O

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-13 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:18:48AM +0300, Ari Jolma wrote: > I'm still very much interested in this. Cairo would provide a single API > to render to an image buffer, on PDF and others. It has good support for > rendering text with various fonts and there are high-level language APIs. > > Current

Re: FW: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-13 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Hi, this mail was forwarded to me, and I immediately subscribed to the mailing list to set something straight. Rushforth, Peter wrote: In the XML world, the answer to graphics rendering is SVG + XSL-FO, generated by XSLT scripts according to styling rules. XSL-FO is then rendered via a formatti

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-13 Thread Ari Jolma
Markus Neteler kirjoitti: Dear OSGeo, I would like to launch the idea of an "OSGeo Cartographic Library" to share concepts, source code and regression tests: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Cartographic_Library I proposed a year ago to develop a geospatial graphics library based on Cairo