[mapguide-users] SVG output

[Paul Spencer]

Hi Alex,

the short answer is that mapguide does not support SVG out.  I  
believe that SVG out could be added via one of the scripting APIs in  
the same way that KML output was done before it was supported in  
mapguide proper.

One of the problems with SVG is that there are different profiles.   
For mobile devices, it may be desirable to support a minimal subset  
of SVG, such as defined at http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile/

Of course, then you need a viewer that supports this too.

There are lots of problems to consider when looking at SVG output.   
For instance, how large an area to request for, what to do with  
partial objects (polygons?), how/when to request new features, how to  
merge features between requests etc.

I am not sure if SVG is even less bandwidth consuming at the end of  
the day, although I would suspect that it could be.  Also don't  
forget that you would need (in addition to the feature) attribute  
information to be embedded to allow for classification/themeing and  
labeling.

Cheers

Paul

On 28-Aug-07, at 8:02 AM, azpublic wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
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> I was wondering if mapguide OS had an SVG output feature ? Is it  
> possible for example to output a map in an SVG / XML format rather  
> than a raster format as it is normally the case.
>
>
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> The idea here is to have the mapguide server output the raw SVG  
> data to a client and let the client (a mobile device) do the image  
> rendering.
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> Subsidiary question:
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> Would outputting SVG data rather than raster (gif, jpeg, png) be  
> less bandwidth consuming for my devices, i.e. would the xml flow be  
> lighter that an image file ?
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>
> Thank your for helping !
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Alex.
>
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