Mark,
There are so many options in open source GIS that there is no need to use
Google or Yahoo maps which are not suited for cartography at all.
I really would look at gvSIG if they wanted to do some cartography:
http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=1996&L=2Lists of free OS GIS software are found at
Free GIS Project
http://www.freegis.org/Open Source GIS list
http://opensourcegis.org/Map Tools
http://maptools.org/At this webpage I posted links "Open Source Geospatial - Overview Documents
and Links"
http://waurisa.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=630 to read more
about this, and also this document "Resources regarding an (OS) "mid range
desktop GIS"
http://waurisa.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=636An overview document is also here
http://terragis.net/docs/presentations/open_source_gis_overview_terragis_2008.pdf
Cheers
Karsten
Karsten Vennemann
Principal
Terra GIS LTD
Seattle, WA 98112
USA
www.terragis.net
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