Re: [HACKERS] Developers globe

Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>

From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: jwieck@debis.com, vev@michvhf.com, scrappy@hub.org, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-03-11T01:11:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

> Can you do longitute/latitude with that map.  Is it linear in both
> directions.  Usually such linear maps look terrible because Greenland
> and Northern Canada are huge.  Don't tell me you compensated for it in
> the tcl code.

I also have a map program I wrote up for an IRC network.

See http://www.sorcery.net/maps/ for that implementation.  It could
use a database backend easily, but right now it uses a combination of
xearth, fly (a gif editing scripting language) and Perl script to
write the fly script.

--Michael