On 25-Apr-07 13:24:06, Chris G wrote:

I've only just thought of this idea but being able to do such a thing on a computer would be really, really useful (to me anyway!).

What sort of software would be good at drawing routes and adding location information to a scanned map? I guess the gimp could do it but are there any applications more specifically for this sort of thing? Ideally the additions would be in their own layers so one could look at only the 'nice bridleways' or the 'good horse accomodation' additions. It would also be nice to be able to add notes to marked locations.

-- Chris Green

GRASS should do it:

http://grass.itc.it

http://pc188.geog.gla.ac.uk/grass/index.php

though it's a big beast (up to 12MB), plus any assorted add-ons.

But I challenge you to think of anything on the lines of your query which it couldn't handle!

The main GRASS site (above) recommends you use a local mirror, of which the nearest is:

http://pc188.geog.gla.ac.uk/grass/index.php

But I've just had a glance at that, and some links seem to be broken; so probably better to use the grass.itc.it site.

Best wishes, Ted.

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The kitten on the keyboard of Chris G resulted in::

What sort of software would be good at drawing routes and adding location information to a scanned map?

From the complete-overkill-in-java department:

http://www.openmap.net/ http://openmap.bbn.com/demo/

Bill