On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Tyron Madlener
<tyronx@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Madhura Jayaratne
> Hi all,
> I have pushed into my repo, the code for visualizing GIS data. I used SVG
> for this purpose and i'm writing the SVG tags accordingly. This allows the
> users without JS support also to view the visualizing oppose to using jQuery
> SVG to generate SVGs. Further it allows the SVGs to be saved, which is one
> of the upcoming features. However I use jQuery SVG to manipulate the SVGs
> (zoom and pan), so the users with JS support gets a better user experience.
> I have also integrated two small libraries [1],[2] to allow panning the SVG
> on dragging and zooming on mouse wheel movement. These are not strictly
> needed but nice to have ones.
> One problem of SVG is the IE versions <=8 does not support is. I am using
> the GD library to generate a PNG image for them and this is in line with
> saving those visualization to various formats.
> You can test this out at my demo server[3] using the data in the opengis
> table. Please be kind enough to share your comments.
>
Yes, I think this should be addressed. I'm looking into it.