Difference between revisions of "Map Creation and Editing"

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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.
  
 
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*http://fwtools.maptools.org/ - supposed to be a map tool, but very basic.  It is a great viewer though as it renders layers effectively.
  
 
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*https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qgis/
 
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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.

Revision as of 10:24, 23 September 2013

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

Map Creation

QGIS

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.