[OSM-talk] Exposure for OSM

Steve Chilton S.L.Chilton at mdx.ac.uk
Mon Sep 11 12:13:39 BST 2006


Tom

I am not really qualified to comment on AI v SVG. I do know that I have
tried to import our existing SVG files into Illustrator and it screws up
pretty bigtime, and that Illustrator is becoming the de facto vector
editor and it is even becoming case that AI is used as an intermediate
transfer format for other stuff.

Cheers
STEVE

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[mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Tom Chance
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 9:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Exposure for OSM


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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The task of critique is not to denounce the ideals, but to show their 
transformation into ideologies, and to challenge the ideology in the 
name of the betrayed ideal (Fromm - Beyond The Chains Of Illusion)

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