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  <desc>Map rendering</desc>
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<title>Champlain</title>

  <p>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>.</p>

  <note>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
  </note>

  <list style="compact">
    <item><p><link href="http://projects.gnome.org/libchamplain/">Champlain home page</link></p></item>
  </list>
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