First, great work here – thanks for the high quality maps.
I’ve developed a light weight GIS viewer / editor I thought some might find useful for working with NaturalEarth data located at:
https://www.geo-trackit.com/p4Vis.html.
One function for simple geometry editing is described here:
https://www.geo-trackit.com/P4VIS_HELP/index.html?editing.htm
The editing process allows you to select an imported object, retrieve a map server or ‘imagepack’ based image (the image is geocoded then morphed into the app’s native projection) where you adjust the coordinates as needed with the image as a guide. The data can then be exported as a shape file.
I’ve found this a quick and easy way to do small fix-ups.
Again, thanks for all your work.
@MJS: Powerful tool, thanks for sharing!
Please note that, while there are a few malaligned features like Gibraltar that need fixing, the reason Natural Earth features don’t perfectly follow a feature’s every twist and turn is deliberate to keep the dataset small. The US State Dept maintains another dataset at 1:250,000 scale that might suit your local mapping needs better: 1 of 12 here: http://geocommons.com/overlays/80233
>>The US State Dept maintains another dataset…
Excellent resource, thanks.
If anyone needs digital road maps I’ve added TIGER/Line® ‘All Lines’ support described here:
http://geo-trackit.com/P4VIS_HELP/index.html?2009_tiger_line(r)_shapefiles.htm
The post-processing applies symbology and adds angled-center-centerline street lables.
@MJS: Looks great, good job!
Hello,
For anyone with an interest in OpenStreetMaps I’ve developed an application (with basemaps from NaturalEarthData) to view and export OSM XML located here: http://geo-trackit.com/OSM_Explorer.html. It’s a little rough around the edges but have managed to import single 40GB+ OSM xml files for off-line rendering and analysis.
Regards,
MJS
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