Any SVG rendering / converting programs suitable for street maps?
by ordealbyfire83 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#55YES)
Lately I have been trying my hand at creating maps from openstreetmap data. This can be a rather computationally intensive process. The general work flow is
1. Download raw osm data
2. Edit xml style files to your liking
3. Use an xml processor to create an SVG file
This seems to work mostly as expected, but some programs such as EOM / EOG have serious trouble displaying street names and other labels. Gwenview is even worse, with black artifacts all over. Pale Moon works as expected, and I can even right-click on anything on the map, then select "Inspect Element" and it shows the relevant snippits from the xml templates.
My main question is, are there any SVG-aware programs that DO NOT depend on librsvg that are capable of rendering and converting such files to formats such as PNG or JPG (ie quickly send somebody a file and they can actually display it), or, say EPS (use in LaTeX), or even directly to PDF? Reading through some documentation from Open Street Map it seems like librsvg is the culprit. Are there any other SVG implementations out there that are reasonably sane to deploy in Linux From Scratch (as in using standard build utils and traditional programming languages)? Thanks.
1. Download raw osm data
2. Edit xml style files to your liking
3. Use an xml processor to create an SVG file
This seems to work mostly as expected, but some programs such as EOM / EOG have serious trouble displaying street names and other labels. Gwenview is even worse, with black artifacts all over. Pale Moon works as expected, and I can even right-click on anything on the map, then select "Inspect Element" and it shows the relevant snippits from the xml templates.
My main question is, are there any SVG-aware programs that DO NOT depend on librsvg that are capable of rendering and converting such files to formats such as PNG or JPG (ie quickly send somebody a file and they can actually display it), or, say EPS (use in LaTeX), or even directly to PDF? Reading through some documentation from Open Street Map it seems like librsvg is the culprit. Are there any other SVG implementations out there that are reasonably sane to deploy in Linux From Scratch (as in using standard build utils and traditional programming languages)? Thanks.