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[dwaynie]

Does anybody know how to export the Natural Earth 1:110m shapefile to SVG with ArcMap while retaining the country attributes?

From SVG I'm gonna try to convert it again over to RaphaelJS to achieve something like:

http://backspace.com...vascript_world/
http://backspace.com...js/world_570.js

But I'm new to all of this so I'm not sure how to go about it. Maybe there's no way but to manually add the country codes for the JS?

Many thanks!

--Dwayne

[Jacques Gélinas]

Dwayne

You might want to look at the online tool called Indiemapper (Indiemapper.com)
From what I read, there is an export to SVG option. Not sure if it will generate any associated attribute.

Good luck.

[frax]

Since SVG is a graphics format (with limited topology), there are no attributes. But - since it is an XML-format, you can easily extend it with other tags/extensions/namespaces. Or add attributes as comments.

For a geo-format that is human readable, with both presentation/graphics, with georeferencing and attributes there is KML.

For a GEO-format that is XML without presentation there is GML.

[frax]

SVG doesn't have attributes, in the same way as GIS. But the paths have a few properties - like the fill color. You could use the fill color to encode the iso number code or similar (just use a lookup table).