Re: [HACKERS] Developers globe - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Graff
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Developers globe
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Developers globe  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

> Can you do longitute/latitude with that map.  Is it linear in both
> directions.  Usually such linear maps look terrible because Greenland
> and Northern Canada are huge.  Don't tell me you compensated for it in
> the tcl code.

I also have a map program I wrote up for an IRC network.

See http://www.sorcery.net/maps/ for that implementation.  It could
use a database backend easily, but right now it uses a combination of
xearth, fly (a gif editing scripting language) and Perl script to
write the fly script.

--Michael


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