[Mapserver-users] Mapserver to SVG

[Geoff Anderson]

Is anyone actively integrating Mapserver with SVG?  A strategy I'm using is 
to pass [mapex], [img], and [legend] etc. from the map template appended to 
a link that points to PHP scripts which dynamically generate spatially 
referenced SVG.  Raster maps generated from Mapserver are easily embedded in 
SVG, potentially giving users the best of both raster/vector worlds.  SVG 
immediately offers advanced web geoprocessing functionality such as browser 
based heads-up digitizing, dynamic feature updates  via gymnastic 
inter-frame scripting, changing symbology w/out reloading the image etc.   
My opinion/experience is that SVG can best be levereged in hybrid 
applications designed to limit amount of spatial data actually written to 
SVG.  Exotic fads like SVG better justify their existence by adding value to 
Killer GIS Apps like Mapserver, PostGIS, and ... Grass.
I'll post a demo and PHP source shortly if anyone is interested.
-geoff







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