Map Creation and Editing
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Misc
- GeoTiff
TIFF to PDF
Ghostscript seems to be the best for this. One could use different graphic editors but on large files with high resolutions this will choke as trying to load the entire graphic in memory.
Managing Large TIFF Files
- http://fwtools.maptools.org/ - supposed to be a map tool, but very basic. It is a great viewer though as it renders layers effectively.
Map Creation
QGIS
- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qgis/
- http://www.qgis.org/en/site/
- Map editing library
- http://www.gdal.org/
PDF to SVG
InkScape but the bigger problem is that it does not handle text correctly (i am assuming) if you do not have the matching fonts installed. It is a 'bug' in inkscape that does not allow direct svg conversion of text. A post suggested using the poppler (http://poppler.freedesktop.org/) library. I did not push into it.
