Michael A. Peters wrote:
I think I may have found what I need - I found some articles on parsing e00 files into arrays that I can then use to draw them with gd. Now the only issue is the e00 files I have have *too* much information - they are statewide - so I need to figure out which datasets in the files are the ones I want ,,,
I may just write a shell script that parses the e00 file and turns the data sets into php include files. There may be some scripts out there that already do a similar thing I can steal, as e00 seems fairly common and has been around awhile.
I think ogr2ogr does what I want - it looks like it has a driver for putting the contents of various formats into database (including MySQL which is already being used for the wildlife database) and then I can probably get the coordinates I need to draw the county border and lakes/rivers from there.
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With respect to other GIS apps - after building Fedora 9 versions of qt3,qt4,sip,PyQT4 - and grass from a spec file (slightly modified) grabbed from a Fedora SVN server, I was able to get qgis to build from a slightly modified spec file that targets Fedora.
Haven't played with grass or qgis yet, though, but hopefully they aren't too hard to figure out and I can start learning more about GIS.