Map Creation and Editing

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.
• Pass -h on linux?!

./openev -h

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.

Map IRL Conferences

• http://2013.foss4g.org/

IMG File Type Specs

• http://home.gdal.org/projects/imagine/iau_docu0.pdf