You just have to love Sebastian Bergmann’s
Image_GIS. With
few lines of code and free
geospatial
data you are able to produce nice map of Finland. A bigger version
here.
Generating maps on demand can be a hard job as most often you don’t have the maps you need in digital form. But you can generate your own maps based on raw, digital data files which are available for free on the net.
The Image_GIS package provides a parser for the most common format for geographical data, the Arcinfo/E00 format as well as renderers to produce images using GD or Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
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