[mapserver-users] SVG

[Zhou Xu]

I find a Perl SVG library at http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~jxm/SVG/iexplore.html, maybe useful for this thread.


On 2001-8-16 18:34:00, you wrote:
>David Moffett wrote:
>> 
>> I am thinking about adding SVG ( Scalar Vector Graphics ) to mapserver.
>> My questions are:
>> 
>> 1. Is someone already doing this?  There was some talk on the mailing in
>> Oct 2000 but I  did not see a conclusion.
>> 2. Is it a good idea?  I think it is since we would like to use it
>> ourselves.
>> 3. What approach would be best.  I have looked at the code and have some
>> ideas but I am a far cry from an expert on mapserver.
>> 
>
>
>I'm not aware of anything that has been started on this front yet, but
>we've had lots of interest expressed to have MapServer produce vector
>output (SVG being only one possibility).  So if any of these projects
>takes off then it's the kind of additions that we might get involved in.
>
>Anyway, I think your idea is a good one, but I think it should be done
>"the right way" in order for your work to be profitable in the long
>run.  A bit like the kind of changes Steve did when SDE and OGR were
>added, and which allowed the PostGIS guys to plug their driver with much
>less efforts.
>
>Basically that would mean redesigning important parts of the rendering
>code in MapServer (and likely some of the mapfile stuff too) to make it
>less GD-centric and be able to deal with various types of output.  If
>this is done well for the SVG case then other output formats such as
>GML, Flash, etc. can be added with much less efforts.
>
>My 0.02$
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