[OSGeo-Standards] SVG Map Toolkit 0.7.0 released

[Satoru Takagi]

Hi Carl-san,

Please notice the place (URL) of the document that royalty free of ISO 
TC211's specifications are declared.

About the specifications of the W3C, the following URL is equivalent.
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/

Regards,

Satru Takagi

Carl Reed さんは書きました:
> Satoru -
> 
> I am referring only to ISO geospatial standards. All ISO geospatial 
> standards are royalty free.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Carl
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Satoru Takagi" <sa-takagi at kddi.com>
> To: <standards at lists.osgeo.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 7:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Standards] SVG Map Toolkit 0.7.0 released
> 
> 
>> Hi Carl,
>>
>> I knew that mpeg of the ISO needed a royalty.
>>
>> And, the following sentences are generally mentioned in specifications 
>> of the ISO. Because I do not know a lot about such a thing, please 
>> teach how I should interpret this meaning.
>>
>> >Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of
>> this document may be the subject of patent. rights. ISO shall not be 
>> held responsible...
>>
>> See also:
>> https://www.on-norm.at/ecom/preview.dyn;jsessionid=KCEQMBUWWD2G4CQCAICCFEQ?PROD_ID=294345&SKU_ID=294345911 
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Satoru Takagi
>>
>> Carl Reed さんは書きました:
>>> Satoru -
>>>
>>> Just to be clear on the topic of ISO standards. The ISO TC-211 
>>> standards (geomatics) are royalty free. Any fees are for the purchase 
>>> of the physical document - not royalty payments. Any jointly 
>>> developed OGC-ISO documents, such as Spatial Referencing by 
>>> Coordinates are free to download and use from the OGC website.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Carl
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Satoru Takagi" <sa-takagi at kddi.com>
>>> To: <standards at lists.osgeo.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 7:08 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Standards] SVG Map Toolkit 0.7.0 released
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>>
>>>> SVG Map Toolkit is not an open source. 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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>>>
>>
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