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Mapnik is a Free Toolkit for developing mapping applications. Above all Mapnik is about making beautiful maps. It is easily extensible and suitable for both desktop and web development.

Very nice an fluid system, using Flash.

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Mapnik is a Free Toolkit for developing mapping applications. Above all Mapnik is about making beautiful maps. It is easily extensible and suitable for both desktop and web development.

Etude complète au format PDF. Cette étude des bases de données spatialisées a pour but de comparer 3 systèmes de gestions de bases de données offrant la capacité de stocker et de gérer de l'information géographique : MySQL, PostgreSQL et la cartouche PostGIS, Oracle et les cartouches spatiales "Locator" (fournie par défaut avec Oracle) et "Spatial" sous la forme payante.

PostGIS (contraction de PostgreSQL et de GIS) est le module spatial qui confère à PostreSQL le statut de SGDBRO spatial. Ce site est le portail français contributif des utilisateurs de PostGIS.

The GeoNames geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license. It contains over eight million geographical names and consists of 6.5 million unique features whereof 2.2 million populated places and 1.8 million alternate names. All features are categorized into one out of nine feature classes and further subcategorized into one out of 645 feature codes.