Hi Pranav,

 

 <http://www.geonames.org/> http://www.geonames.org/ gives back info as well
as lat/lng values in a JSON format which you can  then append to your map
application. I am not sure how you can use existing (SVG) applications and
implement them in your own environment.

 

I use a lot of their services here:

http://www.mappetizer.de/traveldiary/TravelDiary_Ruth/index.html

 

e.g. weather (the sun icon in the toolbar), Wikipedia, but also information
about the local language at the specific lat/lng, timezone, findNearBy. It
is fun to use those data.

 

--- Ruth

 

 

Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Im Auftrag von Pranav Lal
Gesendet: Samstag, 28. Mai 2011 01:40
An: [email protected]
Betreff: RE: [svg-developers] Create SVG maps from geonames data

 

  

Hello Cameron,
<snip Me, too: that is, I'd be a consumer *or* producer (and in
fact already have my own only-runs-in-my-environment demon-
stration) of such an application/utility/product/...
PL] What does your application do? I plan to parse the text dumps of the map
data and then plot them on the map. I will use circles as points. Of course,
if geoNames has a database that I can query and get hierarchical information
that is, get a state from a country and then all the places under that
state, I could produce nicely structured SVG. 

Pranav





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