[OSGeo-Standards] SVG Map Toolkit 0.7.0 released

[Lorenzo Becchi]

Satoru Takagi wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> SVG Map Toolkit is not an open source. 

???
are you promoting it in a list for Open Source software?

if you want a help to find the right Open Source licence for your 
software this is the place to talk about it

ciao
lorenzo



> Its openness is the specifications which it is based on. SVG Map 
> Toolkit is based on SVG 1.1 Tiny.
> Openness of specifications of the W3C including SVG is improved by its 
> royalty-free policy. On the other hand, for example, it is not 
> guaranteed with the specifications of ISO.
>
> Especially, SVG Map Toolkit supports Geographic Coordinate System 
> specifications of SVG1.1.  And probably it is the only implementation 
> to realize layering based on it and hyperlink.
>
> Because there are not so much the demand in Japan though it is 
> technically possible, implementation on non-Windows platforms 
> excluding BREW is not still examined.
>
> Regards,
>
> Satoru Takagi
>
> Daniel Morissette さんは書きました:
>> Could you please clarify the license terms of SVG Map Toolkit? Is it 
>> an open source license or not?
>>
>> The notes at http://blog.svg-map.com/2007/09/svg_map_toolkit.html 
>> seem to suggest that it has a "trial time limit" ... and I can't read 
>> the license in Japanese.
>>
>> Also, are there plans to port the toolkit to non-Windows platforms?
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> Satoru Takagi wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I continue working on Web GIS application of SVG.
>>>
>>> The project is called SVG Map and uses SVG as mechanism for 
>>> inter-operation (mash-up) of the GISs by the hyperlink that is not 
>>> existing WebGIS mechanism to use SVG (or web browser) for as only 
>>> mere indication mechanism. In other words it has the client centric 
>>> inter-operation architecture not a server centric architecture that 
>>> demanded a great deal of operative costs.
>>> In addition, the project takes the support from the Japanese 
>>> Government as de-jure standardization.
>>>
>>> SVG Map has the specifications that some expansion was given to SVG 
>>> which we call SVG Map Profile.
>>>
>>> SVG Map Profile :
>>> http://blog.svg-map.com/2008/07/the-index-of-sv.html
>>>
>>> We have released SVG Map Toolkit as implementation of SVG Map 
>>> Profile. SVG Map Toolkit is a viewer of ActiveX type for IE.
>>> And latest SVG Map Toolkit 0.7.0 were released this time.
>>>
>>> Download SVG Map Toolkit 0.7.0:
>>> http://blog.svg-map.com/2008/09/svg-map-toolkit.html
>
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