geg@beep.mlb.semi.harris.com (Greg Garland) (11/16/90)
Someone just asked me for if I had a map of the world, suitable for display on the computer. I looked in the a few places I knew of, but couldn't find one. Does anybody know of an ftp site where I could grab such beasties? I'm not sure if the guy just wants to display it ala xloadimage or cut and paste it into a document. Thanx. -- Greg Garland - Alive, occupying space, and exerting gravitational force MS 62-024, Harris Semiconductor Sector, PO Bx 883, Melbourne FL 32905. geg@beep.mlb.semi.harris.com "Never let the facts interfere with your perception of reality."
cox@software.org (Guy Cox) (11/16/90)
In article <1990Nov15.214942.18556@mlb.semi.harris.com> geg@beep.mlb.semi.harris.com (Greg Garland) writes: > Someone just asked me for if I had a map of the world, suitable for display > on the computer. I looked in the a few places I knew of, but couldn't > find one. Does anybody know of an ftp site where I could grab such > beasties? I'm not sure if the guy just wants to display it ala xloadimage > or cut and paste it into a document. > > Thanx. > > -- > Greg Garland - Alive, occupying space, and exerting gravitational force > > MS 62-024, Harris Semiconductor Sector, PO Bx 883, > Melbourne FL 32905. geg@beep.mlb.semi.harris.com > > "Never let the facts interfere with your perception of reality." There is a bitmap of the world in xsunclock. I was able to scale it and use it in an application. It needed to be touched up in a couple of places but otherwise was not too bad. I also have World Digitized from PC-SIG and the routines to draw the Mercator Projection of the points. The World Digitizes also has political boundaries and inland water. -- // //Remember; Tuesday is Soylent green day! // Guy O. Cox, Jr. Software Productivity Consortium. 2214 RockHill Rd Herndon, VA 22090 703-742-7219 cox@software.org
klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) (11/17/90)
I've copied xglobe.tar.Z to expo/contrib. It animates a spinning globe, using 128 maps of the world, each with a radius of 320 pixels. The maps are in X bitmap format, which is a little slow, but very portable and editable. xglobe has only been tested on DEC Ultrix workstations, but porting to other systems should be just a matter of editing the Imakefile. It does require Motif (either 1.0 or 1.1). Documentation is in (ASCII) DEC on-line help format. If you don't have the DEC help widget, specify that in the Imakefile. I have another program that draws arbitrarily sized color outline maps using coast lines, islands, lakes, rivers, country boundries, and state boundries, but this is too messy to post right now. Maybe after New Years. -- Ken Lee DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif. Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee