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