On Monday 14 November 2005 09:31, Jeroen Vanattenhoven wrote: > > More I see SVG, less I understand why people want to 'protect' it. If we > > were > > > > talking about high-grade artistic images or clipart, I might would > > understand the reasoning. However, since most of us are talking about > > GUIs and web applications with serverside componetns, I simply do not > > see the point. > > What about GIS data? Currently there are a lot of GIS projects using > SVG. I can imagine that GIS companies would like to protect their data. > > Jeroen
Jeroen, SVG does not have to contain GIS data. GIS data is about geospatial features, wheras SVG is about 2-d image rendering. Normal GIS data is stored in its own format, then transformed to SVG. Because of this, the GIS data is degraded when it is rendered as SVG because it has been transformed. Ronan -- Ronan Oger [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.vectoreal.com ...for scalable solutions. ------------------------------------- Switzerland Mobile: +41 76 527 3552 Fax: +41 44 274 2402 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- 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/
