SVG for GIS (was: [Freegis-list] Mozilla & GIS)

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:33:35AM -0500, Eric Frost wrote:
> There's some cool map implementations with SVG.. they can be very functional.
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/

We have to be careful about wide adoption of SVG,
because there might be patent mines in the area:
	http://www.w3.org/2001/07/SVG10-IPR-statements.html
	http://pmt.sourceforge.net/SVG-patents/

They might make it very difficult to implement fully functional 
Free Software SVG applications.



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