Oh wonderful perl gods, I have a problem and I do not know the best way to solve it. I need to write a program (doesn't have to be perl if you know a better suggestion) that will plot a tract of land. The end functionality needs to be that the user inputs lat/long coordinates, distance and heading/bearing (as generated by a surveyor) and the program will then generate a diagram showing the layout, shape, etc of the tract of land. The functionality seems relativley straightforward but I am a fairly new programmer and I can't seem to wrap my head around the best way to accomplish this. Do any of you know any modules, etc that may help? An example of a windows based program (I am writing for linux) that does this can be found at http://www.johnsonmapping.com/deed.html. The one I am creating only needs basic functionality and does not need to be nearly as complex as this one. Thanks in advance.

In reply to Plotting a tract of land by blhoward2

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