From: Richard Conroy <richard.conroy@...>
Date: 2006-08-24T23:26:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Which Frontend Technology for an Online Game of Risk? SVG Maps?

A colleague pointed me to a real nice open-source vector graphics
package: InkScape.

On 8/24/06, Mariano Kamp <mariano.kamp@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am still wondering how to kickstart the maps. I haven't found any
> simple svg maps to reuse and am not sure how to draw some myself.
>
> How does one start out to draw a map? By transforming geographical
> data? Which data? Or by putting a real map below a canvas in a drawing
> program?

In InkScape I believe there is a feature where you can import a standard
graphic and *vector-ize* it, which would solve your map-drawing problem.