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25    <chapter><title>Introduction</title>    <chapter><title>Introduction</title>
26      <para>      <para>
27      Thuban is a Free Software Geographic Information Systems (GIS) viewer.      Thuban is an interactive geographic data viewer.
28      It is being developed because there is currently no simple interactive      It has been developed because there was no simple interactive
29      viewer for geographic information available as Free Software. Thuban is      viewer for geographic information available as Free Software. Thuban is
30      written in Python and C++ and uses the wxWindows library allowing it to      written in Python and C++ and uses the wxWindows library allowing it to
31      run on many different platforms, including GNU/Linux and Windows.      run on many different platforms, including GNU/Linux and Windows.
32      </para>      </para>
33      <para>      <para>
34      GIS viewers are a necessary tool as they allow one to get a visual      Geographic data viewers are a necessary tool as they allow one to
35            get a visual
36      impression of the positional relationship of the information that may not      impression of the positional relationship of the information that may not
37      be apparent from simple inspection of the data values themselves.      be apparent from simple inspection of the data values themselves.
38      Thuban allows the user to create a session that displays      Thuban allows the user to create a session that displays
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64              <listitem><para>PySQLite 0.4.3 (<literal>http://pysqlite.sourceforge.net</literal>)</para></listitem>              <listitem><para>PySQLite 0.4.3 (<literal>http://pysqlite.sourceforge.net</literal>)</para></listitem>
65              </itemizedlist>              </itemizedlist>
66          </para>          </para>
67                    <para>
68                    Along with the source codes, the download page also offers
69                    full installation packages for Debian, Windows and RPM-based systems
70                    (Mandrake, RedHat, SuSE, etc).
71                    </para>
72          </section>          </section>
73    
74          <section><title>The Main Window</title>          <section><title>The Main Window</title>
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1307          <para>Most commonly used is the <emphasis>TIFF/GeoTIFF</emphasis>          <para>Most commonly used is the <emphasis>TIFF/GeoTIFF</emphasis>
1308          format: Raster maps are provided as TIFF images, with an additional          format: Raster maps are provided as TIFF images, with an additional
1309          "world file" storing the geographic reference (usually with an          "world file" storing the geographic reference (usually with an
1310          extension ".tfw".          extension ".tfw").
1311          </para>          </para>
1312      </listitem>      </listitem>
1313      </varlistentry>      </varlistentry>
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