[Sugar-devel] [Karma] Re: Conozco Uruguay in karma

[Gary C Martin]

Hi Folks,

On 11 Oct 2009, at 14:26, Gabriel Eirea wrote:

> 2009/10/10 Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org>:
>> On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 10:11 -0200, Gabriel Eirea wrote:
>>
>>> I agree with Bryan that it would be great to have svg from the  
>>> start.
>>
>> I am not so familiar with creating svg's. I have only used inkscape  
>> for
>> very basic drawings.
>>
>> Gabriel, do you think we could use Inkscape to accomplish this?
>
> Yes, I think Inkscape is the right tool. I believe you can also take
> the bitmap and ask it to extract a vectorized version of the image.
>
> The problem I foresee is that you still need a way to describe the
> coordinates of cities and other points of interest and relate them to
> the svg coordinates, so that when you zoom in and out the objects are
> all in their corresponding places.

If you're making the move to svg, here's some map games made a few  
years back. They use events driven from the svg shapes themselves:

	http://blog.codedread.com/archives/2007/01/19/svg-map-games/

Regards,
--Gary