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PDF as map source #108

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I must be mad.  I'm trying to turn a series of PDFs in to rudimentary maps with 
"You are here" and 
"He is there" sort of markers.    I stumbled across this framework and it's 
awesome.  From the looks 
of it, however, the underlying map framework seems to be built on UIImage, but 
I'm pretty sure 
PDFs aren't supported as a UIImage file type.  I'd use networked image data 
instead of PDFs, but 
there's no internet or cell service in this location.  Just thought I'd make a 
feature request for PDFs 
as a static map source.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by gco...@gmail.com on 28 May 2009 at 10:12

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Instead of reading PDFs within the framework, how about doing the conversion 
outside? If you're starting with 
just PDF you'll have some georeferencing to do. GDAL/OGR is a great opensource 
toolkit to do file format 
conversion, and Mapnik or Mapserver will render your maps. Mapnik, although a 
fairly new and not mature 
project, is best bet because it uses a Route-Me compatible tiling system. Once 
you have that bit working, you 
can put static images into your project as PNG.

Original comment by halmuel...@gmail.com on 29 May 2009 at 12:55