On Thursday 30 July 2009 09:13:37 Daniel Kinzler wrote:
Hi all
I'm wondering if any thought has been given to rendering maps to SVG.
I'm asking that especially in the light of
<http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/07/svg-for-all-with-flash/> which
might give use in-browser display of SVG, and perhaps even
interactive SVG. Using that with OSM would be really cool!
Now, afaik Mapnik supports SVG rendering. But I suspect that
interactive vector maps would work differently from interactive
pixel-based maps: you could scale smoothly, could use much bigger
tiles, and would use level-of-detail layers instead of pre-scaled
tiles...
Does somethign like that exist yet?
I toyed around with the idea, but I think SVG would not be able to
handle a few hundred thousand objects that you get on zooming to level
11 and lower. Someone prove me wrong please :)
All the best,
Tels
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