Osmarender: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmarender
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de
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?
-- daniel
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