[svg-developers] SVG world maps

2006-05-10 Thread Peter Thompson
I created http://fastsvg.com to provide SVG maps. The site has a downloadable tool for generating your own SVG maps (you specify continents, projection, scale, center point, level of detail, etc.) and a sample of SVG maps generated using the tool. The Mercator projection maps have formulas in the

Re: [svg-developers] SVG world maps

2006-05-10 Thread Alex Amies
Peter, That is an incredibly valuable tool. However, I had a little trouble getting the map to display the way I wanted. The projection was not from the angle I expected and I had trouble centering in the position I wanted. I expect that the functions are all there but I had trouble finding them

Re: [svg-developers] SVG world maps

2006-05-11 Thread Peter Thompson
Thanks for the feedback. Use Display->Set Viewport function to get part of the displayed map centered if you get disoriented. You should have better luck from there. Perhaps I made poor decisions setting up the initial display state. I wanted the user to be able to see any map data initially sel