- From: Michael Gould <gould@inf.uji.es>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:56:49 +0100
- To: <www-svg@w3.org>
Hello. Those of us who work with geographic information --and hope to view our maps in SVG-- would like to suggest explicit treatment of real-world coords, within chapter 8 of the working draft. We'd like to see the ability to transform outside the CSS realm (points, mm, inches) to metres, kilometres etc. This allows users to do things like measure real-world distances on-screen (for example, click on origin and destination on a SVG map, and get the crow's-flight distance), calculate polygon areas... Maybe real-world coords, units etc. are in there somewhere, but it's not obvious reading over the current SVG draft. By the way, my colleague has had a VML-format map server up for over a month now: http://www.imapper.com/iindex.htm Cheers, Mike ___________________________________ Michael Gould Departamento de Informatica Universitat Jaume I E-12071 Castellon (Valencia) Spain Tel. +34 964 72 83 17 http://www.lander.es/~mgould/
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