[postgis-users] AsSVG()

[Klaus Förster]

this is good news!

> Thanks to Klaus Forster (sorry for the "o"... can't rely on
> 8bit chars) whose gave permission to include use his code
> the AsSVG() function will be included in next postgis release.
thanks to strk, paul ramsey, olivier courtin and all the people
who requested inclusion of assvg in the standard distribution :)

> About accuracy control I think it would be better to have
> a separate function controlling it (apply_grid ?) and leave
> assvg() with it's own SVG-specific arguments.
yes, sounds reasonable.

> What do people think about this ?
great future ahead ... :)

greetings from sunny innsbruck

klaus "8bit chars" förster

> 
> --strk;
> 
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 03:13:04PM +0900, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would also strongly encourage the inclusion of the AsSVG() patch into
> > the main source tree of Postgis. Being able to control the accuracy (nr
> > of decimal places) is also very important for me. Thanks for providing
> > the patch!
> >
> > I personally use SVG and Postgis a lot in SVG mapping projects (see f.e.
> > http://www.carto.net/geog234/lab7/index.svg - be careful with loading
> > the contour lines (those are not well optimized for web-use))
> >
> >
> > I am currently in Japan at the SVG.Open, UBIMap and CSIS Symposium.
> >
> > SVG for webmapping is very popular in Japan and just recently strongly
> > recommended in Japan as a standard way to display spatial data on the
> > web and mobile devices. Furthermore the two biggest mobile companies
> > (NTT, KDDI) invest a lot in SVG for mobile devices.
> >
> > http://www.svgopen.org/2004/proceedings_en.html (look for goSVG and LBS
> > services) and www.jamaps.com
> >
> > KDDI is strongly pushing SVG to also become a international standard for
> > Location  based services.
> >
> > Finally: SVG can also be used for digitizing geographic data and feed it
> > into Postgis: http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/digi/ - that project is
> > still immature and at an early stage, but I think the idea might be
> > interesting.
> >
> > So, please include it in the Postgis distribution - it is very important!
> >
> > Andreas
> >
> > btw: KDDI (second largest mobile provider in Japan) also uses Postgres
> > for providing LBS data. Currently they don't use Postgis, since they
> > only serve point-locations so far.
> >
> > --
> > --
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > Andreas Neumann - Department of Cartography
> > Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
> > ETH Hoenggerberg, CH-8093  Zurich, Switzerland
> > Phone: ++41-1-633 3031, Fax: ++41-1-633 1153
> > e-mail: neumann at karto.baug.ethz.ch
> > www: http://www.karto.ethz.ch/neumann/
> > SVG.Open: http://www.svgopen.org/
> > Carto.net: http://www.carto.net/
> >
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