I would suggest to inform yourself about http://openlayers.org/ , which solve some of your demands, although not with SVG.
regards, Stephan. > > > I think I'm on safe ground with my presumption that maps are recorded and > stored in vector format. I observe that whan I try to _use_ the map (on > Firefox 3 on SuSE 10.3/Linux) it takes a looooong time to render and does so > in a bitmap format. > > Since my browser is able to render SVG natively (albeit a subset of the full > SVG spec), is there a way to offload some of the processing burden from the > server and retrieve maps in vector format. > > It strikes me that there should be some considerable advantages to doing this > (if it's not already available :o) ) Not least would be resolution > independence. quicker zooming and, of particular interest to me, the ability > to show/hide/make-translucent chosen features by category/name/layer/type/&c. > > Clearly there are some technical issues, such as how much of the detail to > download at each zoomed level (Don't need to specify the pavement widths or > even the existence of their host roads on a view of a continent) but I > presume AJAXy technology can incrementally add/remove detail into/from the > SVG DOM, on the zoom request > > <excuse>I guess I'm being a bit lazy and putting in a feature request without > the prior research</excuse> but <hope>I'm sure you'll be kind and let me know > in a kind and considerate way </hope> > > Cheers > > Greg > (UK) > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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