Maps anybody

[Eric Merritt]

Joe,

 I don't know if its what youre looking for but GIS is
pretty popular for storing geographic information. The
nice thing about GIS is that it stores the information
in a relational database. This means that all the
usual sql stuff works and all you have to do is learn
the GIS specific syntax. Both postgresql and mysql
support gis information. Postgresql GIS support is
supposedly better, but its much harder to install.
MySqls is less robust but its built in.

--- Joe Armstrong <joe@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
>   Does anybody know anything about digital maps?
> 
>   I would like an outline map of the world - just a
> list of vectors.
> 
>   Also, can anybody know the answers to the
> following questions?
> 
> 	- what are the most common formats for digital
> maps?
> 	- where can I obtain detailed free world/regional
> maps?
> 	- where are the formats specified
> 	- is there any Erlang code to parse/transform/plot
> map data?
> 
>   Why    do   I    want   this?     -   I've   
> joined    Planet   lab
> (http://www.planet-lab.org/) and  soon Erlang  will
> be running  on all
> planet lab nodes - and I'd like graph the
> performance of the system on
> a world map.
> 
>   /Joe
> 
> 


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