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Mapserver and SVG

I can change a .map file to generate SVG as output. See http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/svg-howto/?searchterm=SVG for an example on how to do this.

What does this buy me?

Links

ArcWeb SVG demo

Kartoweb NL Flash based atlas

http://chris.narx.net/2005/09/13/svg-gis-usage-to-increase/

http://www.dmsolutions.ca/news/releases/032905.html press release re: GoSVG and cell phones

http://www.svgopen.org/2005/paperAbstracts/TirolAtlasTopo.html

This site looks very interesting: http://www.svgconference.com/ Here is a paper on topo maps. http://www.svgconference.com/SVG_2004/2004/papers/TopographicMapsWithSVG/

Adobe SVG site and viewer plugin

Mozilla SVG site (more links here)

W3C SVG DOM

XML parser

xmlproc is a Python tool set that you can grab... http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/software/xmlproc/