[Freegis-list] anybody out there playing with GML and SVG?

[Allan Doyle]

There's an Apache-licensed set of Java tools on sourceforge that
provide an API for manipulating GML.

There are also some tools for converting TIGER/Line data to GML at
http://www.gmlcentral.com/tiger as well as tools that will generate
SVG from the resulting files.

(Note that www.gmlcentral.com still has a page pointing you back to
Galdos.com)

DCW is Digital Chart of the World and is available in VPF (Vector
Product Format). There are numerous VPF tools out there. OpenMap
(http://openmap.bbn.com) has some Java code that can read VPF.



Martin Reddy wrote:
> 
> GML is the Geographic Markup Language, an XML-based format for representing
> geographic features that is being developed by the OpenGIS Consortium. The
> GML 2.0 spec is available at:
> 
>   http://www.opengis.org/techno/specs.htm
> 
> Don't know of any stylesheets to convert to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics, an
> W3C candidate recommendation for representing 2D grahics in XML), although
> the GML folks do talk about using SVG as a presentation layer. You may want
> to contact some of the GML folks if you don't get a better answer here. Ron
> Lake <rlake at galdosinc.com> is one of the main guys for GML.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Martin.
> 
> On 6 Jul 2001, Adrian Custer wrote:
> > Sorry,
> >
> > could we try this again in human understandable language? DCW is a
> > vector format or the Digital Chart of the World? GML I assume is one of
> > the numerous free GIS projects and SVG must be scaled vector graphics.
> > XSL has to be one of the family of XML parsing/displaying/correcting
> > layers.
> >
> > We are many on this list, from many different fields, each with our own
> > pool of acronyms. Let's try to make our communication a little less
> > compact and a little more portable. Thanks.
> >
> > And ideally, you might give us an idea of what you are hoping to do and
> > why. I probably won't join you now but if you are still working in six
> > months and I understand what you are doing, I might join.
> >
> > ciao,
> > adrian
> >
> >
> > On 06 Jul 2001 16:55:11 +0200, Denny wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > We've made some progress in transforming DCW to GML...now we're looking
> > > for an XSL to transform the data to SVG...
> > >
> > > Anyone else have interest in this? Know anything about it?
> >
> >
> >
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