Neil,<br>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/30/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Neil Hillard</b> <<a href="mailto:mapserver@dana.org.uk">mapserver@dana.org.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have a raster drawing of the site that I'd like to take and draw a proper<br>map on top of this and then lose the raster image. I'd need to create roads<br>and buildings.<br>
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I have found JUMP to be the best open vector editing tool
available. There are lots of versions out there but I use the nightly
snapshot of OpenJUMP (<a href="http://openjump.org/wiki/show/HomePage">http://openjump.org/wiki/show/HomePage</a>).
Unfortunately it doesn't have great raster support but I usually set up
my raster image as a WMS using mapserver then use JUMP's WMS connector
to bring it in as a base map to digitize from. <br>
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There are other desktop GIS applications like QGis, OpenEV
(search Google for FWTools), or UDig which also edit vector data but
not nearly as well. OpenEV is probably my second choice it's a bit
clunky but powerful and has great raster support so you can cut out the
step of setting up the WMS first. <br>
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Hope this helps,<br>-- <br>Matt Perry<br><a href="mailto:perrygeo@gmail.com">perrygeo@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://www.perrygeo.net">http://www.perrygeo.net</a>