Re: world map or atlas?

[Sam Watkins <swatkins@fastmail.fm>]

On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 12:05:11AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> I'm looking for a decent world map  program, preferably with some
> flexibility about what information is displayed (political & physical
> features, etc).  I find it hard to believe that Debian doesn't have
> this, but I'm not having much luck finding one with apt-cache, I guess
> partley because "map" and "atlas" are regexes used by lots of
> programs...  
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I'm trying to develop such a program in my spare time...

here are some mappy programs I'm aware of that exist in Debian already:

xearth
xplanet
gmt


gmt is good, but not easy to use, you need to be good with your shell!
You can see what it can do online:

  http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc_intro.html


There is another project at:

  http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/

which isn't in Debian, haven't tried it yet.


My program is called "geon", it's can animate the globe (it draws maps fast)
and it's supposed to be able to zoom in from the globe to street level, getting
more detail off the net as it needs it.  It doesn't quite live up to its hype
yet!


Sam