From: Mariano Kamp <mariano.kamp@...>
Date: 2006-08-25T17:36:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Which Frontend Technology for an Online Game of Risk? SVG Maps?

Well, actually the huge svg maps I was looking at seem to have been
generated/converted by inkscape. The problem is that they don't
contain any semantics. Every path and line looks the same, whereby I
was looking for a single polyline, that describes Germany ;-) So that
I can manipulate the appearance of Germany in the context of the game.

So yes, I could display a map with SVG generated by inkscape, but it
wouldn't help me more than the original bitmap.

On 8/24/06, Richard Conroy <richard.conroy@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>