[OpenLayers-Users] SVG Support in OpenLayers (Tiling)?

Tim Schaub tschaub at opengeo.org
Thu Oct 30 14:12:42 EDT 2008


Hey-

Ivo Brodien wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> At the moment I am trying do develop some kind of SVG based WMS-Client  
> for the iPhone using the built-in tilt sensor for semi-automatic  
> zooming while panning.
> I am evaluating the possibility of using OpenLayers for navigation.  
> Everything runs fine so far.
> 
> My Question now is:
> 
> 1) Can I make OpenLayers request SVG as the format against a WMS?

I second what Andreas said.  But, if you really want to read from an SVG 
data source, and SVG format could be written that read SVG and returned 
OL features (assuming map coords).

> 
> 2) What does the SVG Render exactly do? I heard it is only used in  
> Firefox, but it is not used for the map data?
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> Ivo
> 
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