Hello,
If I would be you, firstly I would create an SVG file by parsing the Tiger database (http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/). This is free census and geographical data provided by the US government. After parsing, elimination of intermediate points, coloring and labeling will be required. Then i would transform the SVG file in an image (with Gimp) and provide the two dimensional map points for the web page.
Other idea, simply use google maps API, this would skip GIMP completely.
I think taking over of the picture/map made by somebody else is a copyright infrigement.
Razvan
--- dawngage2001 <dawngage1964@xxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am Mo, 25.8.2008:
Von: dawngage2001 <dawngage1964@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Betreff: Re: creating a map of the united states
An: gimpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Datum: Montag, 25. August 2008, 21:01
Ralph,
I am very new to web developing and yes I did look at the source code
on the page but have not downloaded gimp because I did not know if it
would work. Can you tell me where I need to go on the gimp website to
get this to download for this to work for me?
Thanks
sunrise
--- In gimpi@yahoogroups. com, "ralph mckelvy" <glengarrymac@ ...>
wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if this is what you want, but have you looked at the
> source code? of the page and how they handle assigning location to
the
> map so the program recognizes when the cursor is over Washington and
> not Montana etc. I saved the image you referenced and opened it in
> GIMP. I enlarged the to 200% so that I would have reasonable
accuracy
> on hitting the corners with the cursor. I checked The image
> coordinates for the corners of ND were the same as the coordinates
> used to describe ND in the source code. ie.
> coords="171, 29,220,31, 225,64,169, 61"
> You probably get this, but for the watching world, each point
> referenced is described by the number of pixels to the right of the
> origin (upper left corner in this case), 171 and by the number of
> pixels down, 29. This is the north west corner of ND the next pair
of
> numbers are the coordinates of the North east corner and so forth.
> Because WA and OR and other states have irregular boundaries the
> number of pairs of coordinates varies.
> Now I only needed Gimp to verify that Gimp and the browser used the
> same origin (upper left corner) and the same units (pixels). If you
> wanted to enlarge this map for your page or if you wanted to use a
> different map then you would need Gimp to locate each point on the
> state's border needed to represent it with reasonable accuracy.
> Gimp gives a direct read out of the cursor location. Look in the
lower
> left corner of the Image Window. Also check the units menu it
defaults
> to pixels (px). In the view menu of the Image window make sure "dot
> for dot" is checked this will ensure wysiwig. Gimp help seems to
> indicate that the positioning from image to image is only identical
at
> 100 %. I get identical readings at 200%. The preferences provide for
> aligning the pixel count in Gimp with the screen size. The help
> discusses this. Mine defaulted to the same count.
> Hope this makes sense and addresses you need.
>
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:00 PM, dawngage2001 <dawngage1964@ ...>
wrote:
> > This is the address of the webpage that has the map I like could
> > someone look at that site and tell me if gimp would work for this.
> >
> > http://www.infoplea se.com/states. html
> >
> > Thanks
> > sunrise
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Ralph
>
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