RE: [svg-developers] Re: Need help determining if a point is inside or outside of a closed path

Hi, Sorry in advance if I'm misunderstanding the problem. Svg paths can often be made into closed paths by making sure to add the 1st vertex to the end. From an algorithm point of view there are lots of sites that have information. Here is a discussion chosen at random from a goo

RE: [svg-developers] Re: WMS into SVG

into SVG --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, "Randy George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Pascal, > ... > I have had no problems using layers of elements transparent png in > svg with IE+ASV or Firefox. Randy & Pascal Are you using IE6 or IE7?? I re

RE: [svg-developers] Re: WMS into SVG

-Original Message- From: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of brucerindahl Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 9:45 AM To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com Subject: [svg-developers] Re: WMS into SVG --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, "Randy George" <[EM

RE: [svg-developers] WMS into SVG

Hi Pascal, I don't see a transparent parameter in your uri. You might try adding one to see if that helps. Not all wms servers will default to transparent=true. For example: http://www.geocommunicator.gov/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap?Service=WMS &Version=1.1.1&ServiceName=BLM_BASEMAPS

RE: [svg-developers] Map servers

Hi Barend, Have you looked at Geoserver WFS? I know it's not especially efficient but it is not much work to take the WFS GML stream and output svg. In addition to control of style, javascript, and listeners this approach lets you take advantage of all the backend spatial db drivers availa

[svg-developers] RE: Opera svg and Tomcat

Hi Larry, I discovered something interesting about Tomcat while playing with Opera svg/svgz. This may be of interest to others as well. Tomcat sets mime types in its web.xml. 1. If you have an older Tomcat web.xml it may contain some bogus svg mime types: svg

RE: [svg-developers] Re: 'Native' SVG support in Opera and FF

Hi, I think these are the settings to look at: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.0-doc/config/http.html Two attributes are needed assuming you wish to add additional mimetypes: "compressableMimeType": The value is a comma separated list of MIME types for which HTTP compression may be used. The d

RE: [svg-developers] Re: Is w3c looking at svg 1.3-2.0?

Hi, On the imminent demise of Adobe's ASV option for IE/SVG I think open source, web services, and Microsoft all see declarative XML vector capability as the future of GUI for both the browser and the OS. Possibly it's the slow speed of the w3c schema process that contributes to t

RE: [svg-developers] Browser-based SVG rendering proof-of-concept

Hi Kevin, I think your system was down for awhile. It must have generated a bit of interest :) This seems similar to the dojo approach Jon was mentioning. I think OpenAjax is interesting, but these are all oriented to lowest common denominator cross browser apps and appear primitive next t

RE: [svg-developers] Is Adobe's greed clearing the way for XAML

Hi Geoffrey, I agree with your analysis. Here's my soapbox for what its worth :) Speaking honestly as a small independent developer, without an IE option sticking with SVG is not really feasible, switching to Flash narrows options and now also has a questionable life expectancy, w

RE: [svg-developers] SVG on Google Maps in FF

email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> new svg book with actual scripting samples out now! check <http://svg.carto.net/> Randy George wrote: > Hi, > > Interesting to see the difference in smoothness using the Google svg > enabled api in FF versus vml in IE. &

RE: [svg-developers] SVG on Google Maps in FF

Hi, Interesting to see the difference in smoothness using the Google svg enabled api in FF versus vml in IE. Any idea if Google svg enabled api will be out of alpha/beta? Also is there a link to api documentation for _mSvgEnabled = true; It would be nice if google exposed

RE: [svg-developers] Re: How to connect the database into a svg document

Hi, You might check with these folks: http://www.savagesoftware.com/ They have a good handle on CAD DWG to svg/xml. I think the problem may be which database technology are the DWG files using, internal objects or external links. Some AutoCAD files make use of a db like Oracle to

RE: [svg-developers] Coordinate systems in SVG Mapping / GIS

Hi Bill, I have generally just used geographic coordinates with -y, which implies you have control of the svg creation. Using a universal transform of scale(1,-1) will work on svg outside of your control, but creates problems with the text rendering inverted. (As long as there's

RE: [svg-developers] Interesting interview with Miguel de Icaza cofounder of gnome

Hi, I went to a MS developer event last week where Windows Presentation Framework i.e. xaml was presented. There were three critical advances that I see with the MS technology in order of importance: 1. uses hardware graphics rendering - DirectX in place of GDI - performance is improved a

[svg-developers] re: KML to SVG

Hi, Has anyone done some work on a KML to SVG transcoder or XSLT? Thanks rkgeorge [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] - To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my m

RE: [svg-developers] SVG and Web Mapping Servers

Hi Ben, Yes you can simply write your own interface to your geo datastore using php or any other server side approach. However, using an OWS, OpenGIS Web Service , gets you a couple of things. 1) Decouples your interface from the data store ie you can swit

RE: [svg-developers] SVG and MapServer

Hi Ben, You might look at GeoServer http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/Home which is a Java based OWS server similar to MapServer, but with more explicit OpenGIS conformance. GeoServer WMS provides a format="image/svg+xml" for request=GetMap. It works with a variety of datastores ArcSDE

RE: [svg-developers] Is Adobe abandoning SVG?

Hi Andrew, I also like to remember that declarative XML graphics is not in doubt, just which one. Along the Opera, FireFox, (Renesis?) margins is SVG, but MS Xaml definitely forces the issue. If Adobe is to survive the MS Metro/Xaml onslaught it will have to quickly adapt its pdf/flash to

RE: [svg-developers] SVG Maps

Hi, I'm sure there are quite a few on this list that have experience in SVG Geographic Maps. GIS is one area where vector rendering is important and there has been a lot of activity in that area. Randy George www.web-maps.com -Original Message- From: svg-developers@yahoogroup

RE: [svg-developers] Re: Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)

Hi Leonard, Good post! You are right xml doesn't work for raster bits, but it sure is nice to have xml metadata with the ability to embed raster rather than ntif, tfw, geotiff parameter headaches on top of the innumerable raster variations. XML also won't work for audio/video bits but ag

[svg-developers] Re: Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)

Hi Leonard, Why is being in XML better? Perhaps because of Sax, Xerces, Xalan, JDom, SOAP, MSXML, XSLT, XPath or perhaps simply because I can read the file and grab what I want/need? I am myself wondering whether it makes that much difference how something becomes a standar

[svg-developers] Re: Adobe/Macromedia

Hi, I'm catching up on all the svg postings and a bit surprised at the viability concerns. In the larger picture the obvious trend is toward open standards. Corporate enterprise has suddenly discovered open source and open source thrives on open standards. The first generation o

RE: protecting SVG is pointless - was Re: [svg-developers] Protect SVG - Was Re: Today's Joke: Printing SVG in IE

Hi, It is interesting to note from the discussion that vectors are implicitly regarded as a much higher value than imagery ala Google, Yahoo, MapQuest etc Theft is not a significant problem to their services partly because images are less valuable than vectors and but even more because the

RE: [svg-developers] Re: Today's Joke: Printing SVG in IE

Hi, I ran into some problems using Apache FOP (based on Batik) It seemed to have problems with large coordinate spaces found in mapping and I had to rely on a commercial FO product, XEP from RenderX. Do you know if the current version of Apache FOP handles large coordinates? Thanks rand

RE: [svg-developers] possible customer for specialized CAD or DXF to SVG

Hi, This outfit has some commercial translators you could probably try. http://www.savagesoftware.com/ I used their batch cad converter in the past for dwg files and it worked for my needs. The dxf/dwg format spans a large range of versions and features. It is very complex to supp

RE: [svg-developers] gml2svg tips

Hi Barend, I'm not a great fan of XSLT (I'm probably just too lazy) but I have noticed the Ordnance Survey has an example: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/osmastermap/xml/gml.html Thanks randy -Original Message- From: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMA

[svg-developers] Re: Google Maps

In addition to releasing an api to Google maps, Google has expanded their maps to cover the world (v=w2.4), not in the same detail as the US though. http://www.web-maps.com/GoogleMapExplore/ The expansion has made lat,long calculations in Google Land much easier. The keyhole imagery is also a

RE: [svg-developers] Problems with server project

Hi inegivar, I've not used Geoserver, but if you use PostgreSQL/PostGIS you would have a lot more control than with a prepackaged WFS. -Original Message- From: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of inegivar Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 7:06 AM To:

RE: [svg-developers] Value of a pixel

Hi Holger, I don't think there is an easy Ecmascript way to query a pixel value at the client. I've used a server based a approach on some projects which sends a coordinate back to the server and then gets the pixel value from the server side image. This can then be passed back to the Ecm

RE: [svg-developers] Re: Mobiform Software has updated Aurora XAML Designer for WinFX

XAML sounds nice enough for MS work and probably not much of a transcode from svg but when does it have something we can actually use for our clients? -Original Message- From: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mobiform Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 8:03

[svg-developers] re: jpeg 2000

Hi, Does anyone know if future svg specifications will incorporate jpeg 2000 type image rendering? Thanks [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] - To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developer

RE: [svg-developers] Plotting Latitude and Longitude on an SVG map

Hi, It sounds like you have an Albers Equal Area for the US which is sometimes known as US48 or SRID=102003 However you can't really know unless you want to email the list a coordinate for say a well known point like the four corners of AZ,CO,NM,UT. With that information someone ca

RE: [svg-developers] SVG Devlopment

Hi, Will there be any SVG Tiny 1.2 devices available by this summer? Thanks -Original Message- From: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Antoine Quint Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 6:24 PM To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [svg-develop

RE: [svg-developers] adapt size of my graphic to the size of browser window

Hi, Where life gets a bit more complicated is tracking evt.screenX/Y transform to viewBox() Best place for help on this is: http://www.kevlindev.com/gui/utilities/viewbox/index.htm randy -Original Message- From: tamsvg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 26,

RE: [svg-developers] Re: How to achieve Tiling in SVG ?

Hi, I think there are a couple of approaches that could be implemented. 1) Precompile your world into a set of tiled coverages which is the approach taken by Google Map. You can see an example of wrapping Google Maps in svg here: http://www.web-maps.com/GoogleMapExplore/ (IE ASV3.02 onl

RE: [svg-developers] Learning curve... and development environment

Hi Marjorie, The best all round IDE for web development in my experience is Eclipse. http://www.eclipse.org/ Eclipse is an open source IDE supported by a number of software vendors. The base platform is working toward adding the new Eclipse WTP, Web Tools Project, but in the meantime some

RE: [svg-developers] MySQL AText(ogc) -->GeomFromText

uot;#"," ",$ogc); $ogc=substr($ogc,0,-1); $ogc="POLYGON((".$ogc."))"; $ogc="GeomFromText('$ogc')"; $sql="INSERT INTO ownerpolygons (ogc_geom,nutzer,style) VALUES ($ogc,$nutzer,'".$style."')"; $result=mysq

RE: [svg-developers] MySQL AText(ogc) -->GeomFromText

Hi Burkhard, Try modifying this slightly. First add the extra () for WKT Polygon and close the Polygon: INSERT INTO ownerpolygons (ogc_geom,nutzer,style) VALUES (GeomFromText('POLYGON((2530665 5614074,2530643 614038,2530687 5614030.782426778,2530665 5614067,2530665 5614074 ))'),1,'orange') Ran

RE: [svg-developers] MID/MIF to SVG conversion

Hi, MID/MIF is a very simple ASCII interchange format used by MapInfo. I believe MapInfo exports svg. Alternatively it would not be much of a project to simply write a translator that would take the mif to svg. Adding mid attributes requires a decision. You can: A. ignore attributes B. add

RE: [svg-developers] Re: Tutorial: integrating SVG map apps with OGC WMS services

Hi Andreas, >yes - they serve DOQs and DRGs - unfortunately they have different >datums (NAD83 vs NAD27) and the two resources don't match ;-( it's a >pity they did not reproject the DRGs to the new NAD83 datum ... Looks like TerraServer liked your suggestion: >From their site - "Our OpenGIS

RE: [svg-developers] Tutorial: integrating SVG map apps with OGC WMS services

Enschede (The Netherlands) ph: +31 (0)53 4874253; fax: +31 (0)53 4874335 _________ -Original Message- From: Randy George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 17 February 2005 16:54 To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [svg-developers] Tutoria

RE: [svg-developers] Tutorial: integrating SVG map apps with OGC WMS services

Hi carto.net, Very nice! The folks at carto.net have done it again. I didn't realize that Terraserver included a WMS server for some of their imagery. This is a great resource for background under vector resources. Do you know if there are any experimental WMS servers that serve

RE: [svg-developers] Re: adroit maps.google.com/maps

For the Google Map inclined, I have been experimenting a bit with using maps.google with svg. The Google Map land appears to be very simple, 128px128px .gif tiles arranged in 15 resolution levels from 14 down to 0. You can think of Google Land as a 15 course pyramid.These tiles

RE: [svg-developers] Adobe please distribute SVG Viewer ...MASSIVELY !!!

This is interesting these are all job advertisements in the past few weeks with svg listed in the requirements somewhere: Quality Engineer Adobe Hamburg/Hamburg, APPLY Principal Scientist Adobe Hamburg/Hamburg, APPLY Project Lead Adobe Hamburg/Hamburg, APPLY Software Engine

RE: [svg-developers] Re: adroit maps.google.com/maps

Hi Andreas, Google has a great web service Beta that takes MapQuest features to the next level. It is still constrained to the lowest common denominator of browser which has unfortunately remained stagnant for the past couple of years. The only real pressure for change is coming from the

RE: [svg-developers] Re: Medical images

Hi Shaman, I understand that XAML is to extend svg into the 3rd dimension but we will have to wait for some time to get much chance to see it in action. Longhorn is still a year or two out + 2-3 more before there is an extensive installation base? Then there is the problem of a shrinking

RE: [svg-developers] Medical images

Hi Shaman, I think you would have to convert your Dicom images to something useable in svg such as jpg or png in order to use medical imagery inside svg. I experimented with this awhile back converting DICOM to jpg film strips which could then be moved through a masked view to simulate DI

[svg-developers] Lack of lod support. Knock-out criterium?

Hi, Knock out criterion? I am not sure that I understand why you would want a level of detail functionality to reside in the rendering at the browser. This should probably be handled on the server side not the client side. Why download several levels of detail and tie up scarce

[svg-developers] Lack of lod support. Knock-out criterium?

I'm not sure that I understand why you would want "level of detail" functionality to reside in the rendering at the browser. This should probably be handled on the server side not the client side. Why download several levels of detail and tie up scarce bandwidth? If level of detail is im

[svg-developers] Re: Lack of lod support. Knock-out criterium?

Hi, http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG12/media.html#multires but isn't this just for images jpg,png? I was hoping that eventual incorporation of jpeg2000 rendering would take care of the issue by providing progressive rendering as part of jpeg rather than as part of the svg spec.

RE: [svg-developers] Re: Embedding images from a database?

Hi, Try this: http://host:port/webapp/servlet/ImageLookup?image=imagename.jpg"; /> You need to furnish your own ImageLookup servlet to return the appropriate JDBC query result with a response.setContentType("image/jpeg"); -Original Message- From: TJ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: We

RE: [svg-developers] convert from NAD 27 to lat/long ?

Hi, You could try the proj4 site: http://proj.maptools.org/ Or you could buy the Snyder Manual from the USGS "Map Projectsions a Working Manual" Paper 1395 There used to be a Wolfram Mathematica site with extensive formulae for geographic coordinate transfo

[svg-developers] RE: PostGIS release includes svg output

Hi, I know some here may not have seen this from the latest release of PostGIS. http://postgis.refractions.net/ This release includes a new AsSVG() Function. This makes life a bit more efficient for svg output streams. Anyone working with web mapping/GIS applications