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[rongcon1]

Hello.

I've been looking for some good raster world map that I can tile and zoom to level 13th or so without blurring. If someone know where I can get one, please help point the way.

Also,

Would someone in ths forum please provide tutorial on projecting layers from shp files onto JAVA application that runs with World Wind and/or Open Street Map?

Much Appreciated!

Just a newbie at this....

[Hans van der Maarel]

I've been looking for some good raster world map that I can tile and zoom to level 13th or so without blurring. If someone know where I can get one, please help point the way.

What kind of map are you looking for? Natural Earth could be useful but if you're looking for a more traditional world map with text and boundaries and such there's nothing readily available. On top of that, for optimal results it's best to actually produce a new map for every zoom level, rather than have software rescale it. Especially a map with lines and texts can suffer badly from rescaling.

[Nick H]

I've been looking for some good raster world map that I can tile and zoom to level 13th or so without blurring. If someone know where I can get one, please help point the way.

There is a not too horrific world map here:

http://en.wikipedia....ol_2005_v02.svg

It's an SVG (vector) map rather than a raster, but this does meant that it won't pixelate as you blow it up. It's public domain and you could edit it if required using Illustrator or Inkscape (to name but two).

Regards, N.

[rongcon1]

I've been looking for some good raster world map that I can tile and zoom to level 13th or so without blurring. If someone know where I can get one, please help point the way.

What kind of map are you looking for? Natural Earth could be useful but if you're looking for a more traditional world map with text and boundaries and such there's nothing readily available. On top of that, for optimal results it's best to actually produce a new map for every zoom level, rather than have software rescale it. Especially a map with lines and texts can suffer badly from rescaling.

I've tried natural earth's map already..they get nlurry at 8th zoom..thanks...

[rongcon1]

I've been looking for some good raster world map that I can tile and zoom to level 13th or so without blurring. If someone know where I can get one, please help point the way.

There is a not too horrific world map here:

http://en.wikipedia....ol_2005_v02.svg

It's an SVG (vector) map rather than a raster, but this does meant that it won't pixelate as you blow it up. It's public domain and you could edit it if required using Illustrator or Inkscape (to name but two).

Regards, N.

Thanks Nick...I'll try them...