Robert,
I believe we will hear a lot more about SVG in the upcoming months/year. It
really is a revolutionary way to present maps on the web.
For your information, tou can also find quite a few samples of SVG Maps in
our SVG technology preview area at http://www.dbxgeomatics.com/svg/. I am
currently in the process of completing an SVG export utility (in 100%
MapBasic)
that does support exporting layers with colors gradients, filter effects and
interactivity.
If you are interested in having access to the preview area, please contact
me to get the password.
Regards,
Dany Bouchard
DBx Geomatics
38 de l'Orbite
Hull, Qu�bec
Canada
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http://www.dbxgeomatics.com/svg.asp
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 4:31 PM
Subject: MI: Scaled Vector Graphics News
>
> The WWW community is preparing a new standard, Scalable Vector Graphics,
> that will permit creating web pages with images defined as vectors,
> rasters, or a combination of the two. The new capability allows a user to
> pan and zoom within the image, and it will offer an extensive animation
> capability. Although the standard is not completely worked out, Adobe has
> implemented much of it as a plug-in for Microsoft IE and Netscape.
> Information about Adobe's work in SVG is available at the URL:
> http://www.adobe.com/svg/
>
> A week or so ago Franz-Josef Behr offered an example that uses the new
> capability. His work is at the URL:
> http://www.gis-news.de/svg/samples/karlsruhe/index.htm
>
> Yesterday the WWW standards people issued a news release announcing the
> start of the formal review of the proposed standard. Their announcement is
> at the URL:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-news/2000JulSep/0000.html
>
> I have put together some simple examples to show how SVG and Java work
> together. My examples, which are drawn mainly from an Adobe tutorial, are
> at the URL:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~edwardsrg/Adobe/AdobeTutorial.html
>
> Note that my examples only work with Microsoft IE (because of an temporary
> EarthLink limitation), and remember that you have to load the Adobe
plug-in
> to generate the SVG objects. (When the standard is adopted, SVG
capability
> will be built into the browser rather than implemented as a plug-in). My
> last two examples give a notion of how to apply SVG to mapping
> applications. You can examine both the HTML and SVG portions of these
> examples using the conventional "View Source" browser option.
>
> It's interesting that both MapInfo and ESRI are essentially ignoring this
> new development (one observer reported a "deafening silence"), and that
> Macromedia considers the standard basically a "data exchange format" to be
> used with proprietary software such as their "Flash." But Adobe, Sun, and
> even Microsoft all seem to be quite taken with the new development.
>
> Also, note that SVG stands for "Scalable Vector Graphics," not "Sounds
Very
> Good."
>
> Robert Edwards
> The MapTools Company
>
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