I’ve often thought that it would be nice to update the maps in KGeography, but I don’t see any source files for the map images in the repo. Does anyone know where they came from?
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The maps are stored in png format in the installed path of /usr/share/kgeopgraphy/, and are part of package kgeography-data. They are in the source repo at invent kde org but I cannot post a link yet with a new account. It appears the application uses an associated xml file that interprets the RGB of each region to identify it. So any arbitrary maps can be created! This is very clever.
Perhaps we could increase the size of the US map, which appears optimized for an 800x600 screen or something smaller than modern displays.
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