<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br></div><div><br>On Jul 30, 2012, at 10:28 AM, David William Bitner <<a href="mailto:bitner@gyttja.org">bitner@gyttja.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I think it important however that people *do not* use Inkscape, unless of course it is being put up as an fosGIS package. Using Inkscape has come about due to the inherent deficiencies in map production in various packages.<br>
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Any maps produced for such a book need to be produced solely using the package they are meant to be showcasing. Otherwise the resulting map is not representative of what can be produced using a particular GIS package but rather the artistic skill of the cartographer!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></blockquote><div>Simon,</div><div><br></div><div>I strongly disagree here. One of the best things about Open Source tools is that they often follow the Unix Philosophy of being able to have very task specific tools. Cartography is most certainly a very different task than data analysis and I think that tools like InkScape are a very important part of the "toolbox". While I do agree that we need to do a better job integrating better cartographic tools into individual pieces of fosGIS packages, it is equally important to me that we create the linkages to make it easier to use complementary tools like InkScape as well.</div>
<div><br></div><div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div></blockquote><br><div><br></div><div>Agree with David completely. For example, I can use Perl to create spatial data, but I would not use Perl to create a map. Use the best tool for the job.</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Puneet Kishor</div></body></html>