Re: New package: Image_GIS

+1 for the package, and the name too. --- Sebastian Bergmann <sebastian@php.net> wrote: > Generating maps on demand can be a hard job as most often you don't > have the maps you need in digital form. > But you can generate your own maps based on raw, digital data-files > which are available for free on the net. Most often these datafiles are > available in the Arcinfo format which can be parsed quite easily if you > follow the E00 documentation [1]. > > Together with Jan Kneschke I am working on a new PEAR package that > renders geographical data in the Arcinfo/E00 format into images. At the > moment there are renderers available for GD (with PNG output, ...) and > SVG. > > For example, the map in [2] was rendered using data freely available > from GIS-Datadepot [3]. The map shows the location of users in the > IRCNet channel #php.de. > > I am not sure how to call the PEAR package, my favourite beeing > Image_GIS. The directory layout is as of now > > <dir name="/" baseinstalldir="Image/GIS"> > <dir name="Parser"> > <file role="php" name="GD.php"/> > <file role="php" name="SVG.php"/> > </dir> > > <dir name="Reader"> > <file role="php" name="E00.php"/> > </dir> > > <file role="php" name="Map.php"/> > <file role="php" name="Parser.php"/> > <file role="php" name="Renderer.php"/> > </dir> > > -- > [1] http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/e00/docs/v7_e00_cover.html > [2] http://jan.kneschke.de/projects/geograph/php-user.png > [3] http://www.gisdatadepot.com/catalog/index.html > > -- > Sebastian Bergmann > http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ > http://phpOpenTracker.de/ > > Did I help you? Consider a gift: > http://wishlist.sebastian-bergmann.de/ > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > ===== --- Jesus M. Castagnetto (jcastagnetto@yahoo.com) Research: http://metallo.scripps.edu/ Personal: http://www.castagnetto.org/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com