Hi Jan the original projection is called: Cylindrical Equidistant Projection (i guess so) here is a nice page about projections: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CylindricalEquidistantProjection.html
and i remember kevin lindsay wrote a path simplifier: http://www.kevlindev.com/tutorials/geometry/simplify_polyline/simplify_polyline.svg maybe its reuseable for simplifying the borders. cheers holger Jan-Klaas Kollhof wrote: > > > No indeed, what projection do you want (what was your original one in)? > > I have no clue how they are called. :( > Long/Lat are used in such a way that I could just place an element at > position x,y in the SVG using the long/lat coordinates without > recalculation. > Does that make sence, sorry I am not familiar with the vocab. > Oh, in the one you showed the antartica is missing. > It is pretty essential, lot's of people travel there :) > > I guess the map you showed is nice. If you could include the ISO codes > that'd be great. > > > > > Any licenses involved? > > No, origin is the Digital Chart of The World, which is freely useable. > > cool > > > Jan > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
