Re: Simple Graphics Coding

maud <maud.july@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

I would like to produce a number of maps with customized pushpins. I
do not need to embedded this into an application, however I need to
produce many more than I can manually construct. I was hoping someone
could recommend a simple application or programming environment to
work in. I have been thinking that if I get a background map image,
and then create a table of the pixel locations corresponding to map
locations, I would just need a program that given some sort of input
text file, created an image by placing a designated image on top of
the world map image at a designated pixel location.

Any ideas?

As has been pointed out, you just need a utility to:

(1) process the file of locations
(2) generate overlayed images from a source map and a "pin" image

I have done this sort of thing in the past with out any traditional
programming. The ImageMagick[1] toolkit includes command-line
utilities to generate and transform images, and others to built
composites from one image overlayed on another. With a good input
format to start with you can do it all with a small bit of "shell"
scripting.

[1] http://www.imagemagick.org/

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Ben.
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