[CS-FSLUG] Maps with free software

[Don Parris]

On 7/14/05, Jukka <jukka.ylonen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> Few weeks ago I volunteered to do some maps for Finnish Lutheran
> Mission. I took it as an opportunity to show what I can do with
> open-source software. Finnish Lutheran Mission is a christian mission
> organization which operates both in Finland and other countries. In
> Finland they have divided into 17 "departments" which operate among
> local lutheran congregations in different parts of Finland. They are
> doing a "facelift" to their homesites after this summer(17 sites all
> together) and needed maps to each homesite that present
> areas/congregations they operate in. Maps had to include also links to
> contact information and homesites of congregations covered by the map.
> I have dome maps using Inkscape, Gimp, Nvu and Bluefish. Maps are
> based on bitmap pictures from some finnish map-service
> (http://www3.intermin.fi/Aluejaot/Aluejaot - with their a permission),
> but then completely "re-drawn" into a vector-format. If you are
> interested this kind of things, I'd like to hear what you think of
> them (you can also get a glimpse what finnish lutheran
> congregations/churches look like :).. Some texts in web-pages may not
> look right because of some scandinavian characters, but I hope it
> doesn't disturb too much.
> 
> My "Inkscape"-maps:
> http://uudenmaankl.sekl.fi/kartta/toiminta-alueet.html
> 
> Blessings,
> Jukka
> 
> _______________________________________________

Overall, it looks good.  The 2nd map in the left column did not want
to load in Firefox under WinXP for some reason.  It did load using
MsftIE.  Otherwise, looks like you did an excellent job!  Way to go!

Don
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