[OSGeo-Standards] SVG Map Toolkit 0.7.0 released

[Carl Reed]

Satoru -

Just to be clear on the topic of ISO standards. The ISO TC-211 standards 
(geomatics) are royalty free. Any fees are for the purchase of the physical 
document - not royalty payments. Any jointly developed OGC-ISO documents, 
such as Spatial Referencing by Coordinates are free to download and use from 
the OGC website.

Regards

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Satoru Takagi" <sa-takagi at kddi.com>
To: <standards at lists.osgeo.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Standards] SVG Map Toolkit 0.7.0 released


> Hi Daniel,
>
> SVG Map Toolkit is not an open source. Its openness is the specifications 
> which it is based on. SVG Map Toolkit is based on SVG 1.1 Tiny.
> Openness of specifications of the W3C including SVG is improved by its 
> royalty-free policy. On the other hand, for example, it is not guaranteed 
> with the specifications of ISO.
>
> Especially, SVG Map Toolkit supports Geographic Coordinate System 
> specifications of SVG1.1.  And probably it is the only implementation to 
> realize layering based on it and hyperlink.
>
> Because there are not so much the demand in Japan though it is technically 
> possible, implementation on non-Windows platforms excluding BREW is not 
> still examined.
>
> Regards,
>
> Satoru Takagi
>
> Daniel Morissette さんは書きました:
>> Could you please clarify the license terms of SVG Map Toolkit? Is it an 
>> open source license or not?
>>
>> The notes at http://blog.svg-map.com/2007/09/svg_map_toolkit.html seem to 
>> suggest that it has a "trial time limit" ... and I can't read the license 
>> in Japanese.
>>
>> Also, are there plans to port the toolkit to non-Windows platforms?
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> Satoru Takagi wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I continue working on Web GIS application of SVG.
>>>
>>> The project is called SVG Map and uses SVG as mechanism for 
>>> inter-operation (mash-up) of the GISs by the hyperlink that is not 
>>> existing WebGIS mechanism to use SVG (or web browser) for as only mere 
>>> indication mechanism. In other words it has the client centric 
>>> inter-operation architecture not a server centric architecture that 
>>> demanded a great deal of operative costs.
>>> In addition, the project takes the support from the Japanese Government 
>>> as de-jure standardization.
>>>
>>> SVG Map has the specifications that some expansion was given to SVG 
>>> which we call SVG Map Profile.
>>>
>>> SVG Map Profile :
>>> http://blog.svg-map.com/2008/07/the-index-of-sv.html
>>>
>>> We have released SVG Map Toolkit as implementation of SVG Map Profile. 
>>> SVG Map Toolkit is a viewer of ActiveX type for IE.
>>> And latest SVG Map Toolkit 0.7.0 were released this time.
>>>
>>> Download SVG Map Toolkit 0.7.0:
>>> http://blog.svg-map.com/2008/09/svg-map-toolkit.html
>
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