[OSM-talk] Exposure for OSM

[Tom Chance]

Ahoy,

On Sunday 10 September 2006 20:52, Steve Chilton wrote:
> Export to Illustrator function would be excellent if you can do it
> sometime. With the (probable) demise of Freehand with the Adobe "takeover"
> of Macromedia more and more people will be using Illustrator as standard
> vector editing tool for production tasks. Thus the format would probably be
> more useful than EPS for data transfer. Think AI can be read into Corel and
> Inkscape too.

What's the advantage of a native AI file over a plain old SVG? That is, can 
you represent any data better with AI than with SVG, and is Illustrator 
rubbish at handling SVGs? Are there other apps that know AI and not SVG? Me 
not knowing very much about Illustrator...

EPS I can understand, for publishing/printing purposes where it's often 
standard.

A basic export to SVG would be more universally useful, which I suppose would 
be something like a customised Osmarender output? Go to the web site, plug in 
the co-ords, select desired features, and get the area out in SVG format. 
Lovely :)

Regards,
Tom

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