Re: Should we pay more attention to SVG?

2015-07-24 12:47 GMT+02:00 Ed Parsons <eparsons@google.com>:

> I agree SVG is interesting technology, and is already widely used in
> mapping - Lets just be careful however as, quoting the charter...
>
> "The Spatial Data on the Web Working Group must be mindful of the needs of
> front end Web developers, however, it will not develop any geospatial or
> map rendering technologies."
>
> So pointing to good working examples as a potential best practice is a
> good approach.
>
> Ed
>

SVG can be seen as a set of standards for encoding vector geometry and
associated coordinate reference systems in a way that is native to the web
(it can be directly displayed in a (modern) web browser). It could be seen
a a means of visualising data on a web page, but also as a means of
publishing vector data on the web - SVG data can be embedded on a web page.
So there is a supply side and a demand side. Besides that, SVG is already
developed. We don't need not help further development, but we could try to
align our work with SVG. Issues that are particularly interesting with
regard to SVG seem to be the requirements for vector geometry encoding and
coordinate reference systems. It would be very nice if best practices in
those areas are somewhat compatible with SVG.

Regards,
Frans


>
>
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 at 11:04 Linda van den Brink <
> l.vandenbrink@geonovum.nl> wrote:
>
>>  What about a technology talk about SVG at one of our telecons?
>>
>>
>>
>> *Van:* Frans Knibbe [mailto:frans.knibbe@geodan.nl]
>> *Verzonden:* vrijdag 24 juli 2015 12:00
>> *Aan:* SDW WG Public List
>> *Onderwerp:* Should we pay more attention to SVG?
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> I would like to direct your attention to a recent contribution that came
>> in on the public comment list
>> <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdw-comments/2015Jul/0001.html>.
>> My feeling is that we could try to strengthen ties between our work and SVG
>> a bit.
>>
>>
>>
>> I propose to include SVG as one of the existing practices in the Compatibility
>> with existing practices requirement
>> <http://w3c.github.io/sdw/UseCases/SDWUseCasesAndRequirements.html#Compatibility>,
>> so that SVG is at least explicitly mentioned in the UCR document, and less
>> likely to be forgotten about in the BP work. But perhaps there is more that
>> we could or should do?
>>
>>
>>
>> As an example, here <http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3711652> is a
>> illustration of relevance of SVG to geographical/spatial data on the web.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Frans
>>
>>
>>
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