On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Grant Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19 June 2011 14:38, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> Forgot to mention that SVG files are most likely produced works, even >> those they aren't raster images, so converting to SVG and then back to >> map data would potentially be pretty trivial. >> > > Nearly 12 months since you raised this thread last.... it was also > answered then. > > Yes, SVG is an interesting case. > If the SVG is produced for display it is simplified and normalised, > making it a extremely poor data source for re-import into a new > database. (same as per images)
Depends what data you want to extract. If you just want to extract factual information, an SVG produced for display is perfectly fine. Of course, I don't see anything in the ODbL which allows you to extract those facts from a produced work. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
