Thank you Paul ! I guess I will be sticking to regular raster output then, even though my target mobile devices should be able to render SVGMobile / TinySVGT format. My only problem, when considering mobile applications, is that screen sizes vary a lot from one device to another. I thought that using Scalable vector graphics could help me a lot then... I guess I will need to generate a bigger map surface (thinking about using tiles too) and then let the users of smaller screens scroll/navigate through the maps. But then again I suspect this will consume more (expensive) bandwidth too. I'm not yet sure about what is the correct strategy for this...
BTW, what do you mean when you say : > Also don't > forget that you would need (in addition to the feature) attribute > information to be embedded to allow for classification/themeing and > labeling. >From what I thought, I could embed all this information inside the SVG flow itself... Thanks again :) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Spencer Sent: mardi, 28. août 2007 15:44 To: MapGuide Users Mail List Subject: Re: [mapguide-users] SVG output Hi Alex, the short answer is that mapguide does not support SVG out. I believe that SVG out could be added via one of the scripting APIs in the same way that KML output was done before it was supported in mapguide proper. One of the problems with SVG is that there are different profiles. For mobile devices, it may be desirable to support a minimal subset of SVG, such as defined at http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile/ Of course, then you need a viewer that supports this too. There are lots of problems to consider when looking at SVG output. For instance, how large an area to request for, what to do with partial objects (polygons?), how/when to request new features, how to merge features between requests etc. I am not sure if SVG is even less bandwidth consuming at the end of the day, although I would suspect that it could be. Also don't forget that you would need (in addition to the feature) attribute information to be embedded to allow for classification/themeing and labeling. Cheers Paul On 28-Aug-07, at 8:02 AM, azpublic wrote: > Hi, > > > > I was wondering if mapguide OS had an SVG output feature ? Is it > possible for example to output a map in an SVG / XML format rather > than a raster format as it is normally the case. > > > > The idea here is to have the mapguide server output the raw SVG > data to a client and let the client (a mobile device) do the image > rendering. > > > > Subsidiary question: > > Would outputting SVG data rather than raster (gif, jpeg, png) be > less bandwidth consuming for my devices, i.e. would the xml flow be > lighter that an image file ? > > > > Thank your for helping ! > > > > Cheers > > Alex. > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.6 - Release Date: > 24.08.2007 00:00 > > _______________________________________________ > mapguide-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Paul Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chief Technology Officer | |DM Solutions Group Inc http://www.dmsolutions.ca/ | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ mapguide-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.6 - Release Date: 24.08.2007 00:00 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.6 - Release Date: 24.08.2007 00:00 _______________________________________________ mapguide-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users
