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