well, depends on what you have available and where you want the SVG to be stored or to come from...
My project (http://kartoweb.itc.nl/RIMapper) uses the data stored in a geospatial DB (MySQL, could also be PostGIS) and on-the-fly translation to SVG by a webservice. Carto.net (http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/) have a shape-file to SVG tranformation tool. The commercial GIS system ArcGIS (www.esri.com) has a simple export tool for SVG, an much better one is available as a plugin from a firm called UISmedia (http://www.mapview.de/eng) Commercial software like FME, and GIS software like Intergraph Geomedia can also do good translation, but I have no personal experience with these... ____________________________ Barend Köbben International Institute for Geo-information Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC) PO Box 6, 7500AA Enschede (The Netherlands) ph: +31 (0)53 4874253; fax: +31 (0)53 4874335 _____________________________ > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of geoionescu2003 > Sent: Monday, 25 July 2005 10:44 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [svg-developers] Re: SVG geographical maps > > Hello Barend, > > thanks for the links. I've already downloaded GIS data for Romania > from maproom and I'm quite impressed. > > One more question, since I'm new with this: > any recommendation for a tool to convert GIS to SVG (I've found quite > a bunch but instead of testing them all I'd like to know user's > experience with this). > > Thanks again. > George. > > --- In [email protected], Barend Köbben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > no, but there'as places where you can find these maps in other > (GIS) formats which can be translated to SVG relatively easily... > > > > Look eg in : http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/ > > http://www.evl.uic.edu/pape/data/WDB/ > > http://www.esri.com/data/data_portals.html > > > > > > ____________________________ > > Barend Köbben > > International Institute for Geo-information Sciences and Earth > Observation (ITC) > > PO Box 6, 7500AA Enschede (The Netherlands) > > ph: +31 (0)53 4874253; fax: +31 (0)53 4874335 > > _____________________________ > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > geoionescu2003 > > > Sent: Friday, 22 July 2005 13:38 > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [svg-developers] SVG geographical maps > > > > > > Hello all, > > > Perhaps this might be a little off-topic, but I don't really know > > > anywhere else to ask, so here it goes: > > > > > > I'm basically trying to develop a mapping application with very > simple > > > features: displaying a map of Romania with it's borders, cities > and > > > major transportation roads. > > > > > > I do have a raster image on which I draw some points to identify > > > cities, but after I've seen svg capabilities, I thought that > > > having an > > > SVG map for Romania (and/or Europe) would be *really* nice, since > it > > > would allow me to add a bunch of nice features to my > > > application (e.g. > > > show/hide layers, nice zooming etc.) > > > > > > So, the question is: does anyone know where I could find > > > Europe/Romania > > > SVG maps with details like roads, major cities etc? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > George. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- > > > To unsubscribe send a message to: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -or- > > > visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click > > > "edit my membership" > > > ---- > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- > To unsubscribe send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -or- > visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click > "edit my membership" > ---- > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
