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    <link type="guide" xref="tech" group="champlain"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">

      <name>Federico Mena Quintero</name>

      <email its:translate="no">federico@gnome.org</email>

      <years>2013</years>

    </credit>

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    <desc>Map rendering</desc>

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<title>Champlain</title>

  
Champlain is a library that provides widgets to render maps. Maps can be

  obtained from various source, including

  <link href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">Open Street Map</link>.

  <note>

      libchamplain is named after Samuel de Champlain, famous French navigator,

      explorer and cartographer. He is the “father of New-France” and founder of

      Québec City, which was the 400th anniversary in 2008, the year this library was

      created.

  </note>

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    <item>
<link href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/libchamplain">Champlain home page</link>
</item>

  </list>

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