Online map creation

[Steven Manchester]

>The best means for automated geographic mapping that I've encountered, is 
>at the online map creation web site: 
>http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc_intro.html   Simply define the area and 
>scale of your map by specifying the four corners using latitude and 
>longitude, choose the projection you desire, and submit a table of your 
>points indicated with latitude and longitude, and a map suitable for 
>publication is produced in adobe illustrator or other specified formats 
>that may be downloaded at your computer for free.  It works on the Mac as 
>well as PC, but is most efficient with a fast connection to the internet.

Steve Manchester


>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
>Date:    Wed, 7 May 2003 17:43:23 +0200
>From:    Peter Schols <peter.schols at BIO.KULEUVEN.AC.BE>
>Subject: Re: Mapping Tool
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