Mapping Tool

[Peter Schols]

Hi Jan-Peter,

Have a look at iMap: http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/bio/sys/imap/
It's a $30 shareware application that probably does exactly what you 
want.

All the best,

peter



On woensdag, mei 7, 2003, at 17:18 Europe/Brussels, Jan-Peter Frahm 
wrote:

> Hundreds of amateur botanists and also zoologists in Europe are 
> "mapping" species records, however, the facilities to display these 
> records on maps are poor, at least to my knowledge. It would be, 
> however, nice to display these records on the computer, for 
> publications as well to get an impression of the known distribution. 
> GIS programs are expensive and difficult to operate. There are also 
> possibilities to publish such maps on the internet (Open GIS). There 
> are also many Map Viewers, which can - again to my knowledge - only 
> display maps which were prepared before with GIS programs. There are 
> also some programms, which were developed for special purposes, but 
> work only with special maps and special data, but are not an open 
> system. Is there any mapping tool (a home edition), which can read 
> lat-long data from a database and display the coordinates as dots on a 
> map (similar to the map viewers displaying the herbarium records of 
> some herbaria), and which can be provided for free or at a reasonable 
> price?
> Jan-Peter Frahm
> Botanisches Institut der Universität
> Meckenheimer Allee 170
> 53115 Bonn
> Tel. 0228/732121
> Fax: 0228/736542
> www.bryologie.uni-bonn.de