RE: [xml-dev] A few general questions about SVG

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@intergraph.com>]

By the way, there are projects for world mapping based on VRML. 

 

http://www.geovrml.org/tools/

 

points out some places to start.   There are tools for converting from

USGS Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data.

 

Chris Thorne (Surak) and some others are working an ambitious

project for 3D mapping of the world.

 

For the XML crowd, X3D would be appropriate.

 

len

>>2. Continuing with the last question ... Suppose that I have a map of a country.  How much detail can be put into the map?  Can I put details down to the level of a building, on a street, in a city, in a state in the country?  Can I then Zoom in from the country level down to see the building?<<