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user-inactivated  ·  1918 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 14, 2018

Scripts driving Cairo or just scribbling postscript to a file works fine too if you don't want to buy ArcGIS just to have it draw things for you. The ewkb you get out of PostGIS isn't hard to parse. Placing labels legibly is a more complicated problem than anyone expects at first, but the rest is straightforward.