[sword-devel] Sword Atlas

[SW]

Hello, 

To avoid any copyright issues, I was going to play with using satillite data and a 3D terrain generation program for generating the maps. Although the data for the middle east and europe isn't as detailed as it is for north america, it's useable. I've done this before with portions of europe for maps for a game.

I can use the program to create a bitmap from an overhead view like any normal map.

Adding details like roads and cities to the bitmap is fairly easy.

It may take a few days to dig up the correct data, but I'll get to working on the first map.

Sam



======= At 2003-04-25, 05:29:00 you wrote: =======

>On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure what you had in mind, but I was thinking to start with
>> something simple. Perhaps a good place to start would be with just a handful
>> of maps, like those found in the back of many Bibles.
>
>I've got just a couple ideas about this:
>
>1) It would be very good if someone could do their own scanning of maps 
>from printed books with expired copyrights.  Maps that are to be found 
>online are frequently still copyrighted, have been altered (especially 
>with the URL of the hosting site), or even have the laughable claim of 
>copyright on the basis of scanning.  Better to avoid all of this if 
>possible.
>
>2) On the other hand, if someone wants to get permission to use 
>copyrighted maps, that would be great too.  I know that Son Light 
>Publishers permits e-Sword to distribute their maps, so they might be give 
>us permission as well.  There seems to be another nice one here: 
>http://www.anova.org/sev/atlas/htm/ .
>
>--Chris
>
>
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Best regards.				 
SW
swalkerdsl@americanisp.net
2003-04-25