On Saturday 12 March 2005 08:05 pm, Trent Shipley wrote:
>
> There is a GIS/Mapping tool that works with Postgresql, but that is
> overkill.

It is overkill for this need but creating maps like this is a skill/tool 
that is good to have.  What tool are you talking about?

> Can you capture an image of the relevant area?  (He said realizing what
> he was thinking amounted to a type of manual solution using Gimp.)

The option you suggest is probably improved with this article I found.

http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/14/1622209&from=rss

It describes putting a graphic image map as the background of a OOo Calc 
spreadsheet and then placing icons and information in the spreadsheet 
cells at the locations on the map.  Not a "bad" idea, really, but not the 
solution I was hoping for.

MS has MapPoint to do this and I use it years ago.  Feed it a list of 
addresses and it puts them on the map for you.  I hoped for something 
similar in Linux.

A thought I just had: How do the wardrivers map all those wifi spots?  
Hmm...  I'll go research that.

Alan
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