[Freegis-list] Tools

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 11:24:38AM +0100, Walter Harms wrote:
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> thanks for the hint,
> actualy i am looking for tools in the sense of software but theses maps are nice of cause :).
Aha! O.k., I am using GRASS GIS:
http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/index2.html

a nice open source GIS system.
 
> I would like to have a tool to digitize e.g. our 1:50K maps.
That can be done with GRASS using the "v.digit" tool.

> We have the offical top50 CD but i dont know the fileformat and it seems to be pretty useless if you dont have the (expensive) professional version.
Yes, I know that CDROM. In fact, it's useless. You could just look at
these data, nothing else.

> btw: I try to plot a bunch of data collect from all over germany using GMT what does the geo. department in hannover use ?
Usually I use GRASS and export the data to XFIG (a CorelDraw Clone).
The GRASS module "v.out.xfig" export vector data, raster data can be
exported in several image formats like tif, png etc.

Recently an export script from GRASS to GMT was in the GRASS mailing 
list. So it could be done by scripts as well.

Cheers

 Markus