Erik - This is awesome - definitely a needed component in the puzzle & looks like kindred spirits.

As for SVG, an app that rendered its display using SVG would be cool, but a single SVG file still limits the user to the scope of the output map. No opportunity to pan across the world to see what's going on at the same time, no opportunity to add additional info for comparisons, no opportunity to zoom in for more detail.

Thanks again - that project looks fantastic.

Thanks, Jeff

"Erik Zachte" e.p.zachte@chello.nl wrote in message news:NMENLBGDKAFGBDHEPOBNGEMPCHAA.e.p.zachte@chello.nl...

Oops, sent my reply to Wikitech first, I hope the discussion does not fork :)

There is a Historical Event Markup and Linking Project

http://heml.mta.ca/heml-cocoon/

They try to address issues mentioned here. There is demo of an animated map there as well.

They choose SVG as the medium which seems a good choice. I know there are (were ?) problems with SVG viewing on Mozilla, but that will be fixed, I'm sure.

Erik Zachte