[OpenLayers-Users] SVG Overlay

[miles]

Tim Schaub wrote:
> Hey-
>
> miles wrote:
>   
>> Are there any examples of using a SVG overlay?  I didn't see any.  I 
>> suspect it's kind of tricky since I assume the SVG coordinate system 
>> would need to be translated to the coordinate system/projection being 
>> used for the base layer. 
>>     
>
> If you open the following page in Firefox, you're looking at an "SVG 
> overlay."
>
> http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/rotate-features.html
>
> Did you mean something different?
>   

yes, I realize OpenLayers renders in SVG or VML but I meant overlaying 
an actual SVG xml file.  This would permit displaying icons made in 
Inkscape, etc and I would think be faster since OpenLayers does not have 
to convert the vector language code to SVG.  Obviously it would only 
display in a browser that supports SVG - or should we say won't display 
in IE, the only browser that does not support SVG ):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!-- Created with Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) -->
<svg
   xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
   version="1.0"
   width="744.09448"
   height="1052.3622"
   id="svg2">
  <defs
     id="defs4" />
  <g
     id="layer1">
    <path
       d="M 231.42858 336.64789 A 48.57143 47.142857 0 1 1  
134.28572,336.64789 A 48.57143 47.142857 0 1 1  231.42858 336.64789 z"
       
style="fill:#ff0000;fill-rule:evenodd;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:1px;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity:1"
       id="path2160" />
  </g>
</svg>