[OSGeo-Discuss] Libre Graphics Meeting - Montreal, May 4-6

[Bob Basques]

All,

Interesting thread here.

GIMP is very scriptable.  I've used it for quite a while actually.  A 
stripped down version for use as a CGI would be something that might be 
pretty slick as an add on to a Web Service.  Something to add to a 
Client Layout Canvas product (of which I've been experimenting with 
lately) would do wonders.  SVG import would be a good medium for 
transfer of vector data, even Postscript would work.

Being able to add even some of the graphic filters to the Map output 
would allow for a wealth of options for Map Displays.

bobb



P Kishor wrote:
> On 4/6/07, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <tmitchell at osgeo.org> wrote:
>> I was talking to some folks involved with the Libre Graphics Meeting
>> (below) and I think it'd be interesting to try to find some synergies
>> between our geospatial visualisation needs and their applications:
>> Blender, GIMP, Inkscape, Krita, Scribus.  We all know map production
>> is near and dear to our hearts and similar concepts are to theirs
>> too.  It'd be great if someone could go and do a presentation about
>> our perspective on graphics with geo on the brain.
>
> A long time ago, another life, another place, I used a product called
> Mapublisher made by a Canadian company called Avenza. A plugin for
> Adobe Illustrator, t allowed me to import shapefiles into Illustrator
> and create nice looking posters/graphics, basically bypass the
> limitations of Arcview or of cutting and pasting bitmaps. Slick idea,
> it was.
>
> I believe Deneba's Canvas (or whatever the company is called now) does
> that as well. Having the ability to import shapefiles into Inkscape (a
> really fun product) would be very nice.
>
> ..