[R-sig-Geo] Import a .svg map?

[Barry Rowlingson]

So I see a couple of distorted outlines of Iceland, both quite
flattened N-S (Mercator projection?), and a warped grid over the top,
with what I suppose are 5 control points with green and blue point
pairs...

Is this the output from some kind of warping/registration procedure?
What are you trying to get out? Is your original shapefile in lat-long
and you want a map of Iceland in warped lat-long (ie in the wrong
place)?

The coordinates of the lines in the SVG scale it nicely for putting on
an A4 page so it looks like this is designed for printing and not
further analysis....

 Have you got a link to the software?


On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Gilles Benjamin Leduc <gbl1 at hi.is> wrote:
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>  Hi Barry,
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> Thanks for answering ;)
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> So the svg is here https://www.dropbox.com/s/ggok7wijxk8hoat/ana-UPGMA.svg
> I can also provide the originel shp (the one coresponding to the blue stuff)
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> It seems that Darcy is a dead-end software… French research… No global view… Public funding and no control… Very sad cus it could have been great, and I was about to add in my package a export function to it… anyway…
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> Thanks a lot
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> Benjamin
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> Le Vendredi 27 Juin 2014 13:42 GMT, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> a écrit:
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>> SVG is a general vector graphics format, which uses XML for its
>> structure. The coordinate numbers in the SVG could be anything now,
>> perhaps scaled from 0 to 1 on each axis or something. It might take
>> some custom processing to recover the SVG into a proper mappable
>> format.
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>> And if by "their perspective is horible" you mean their projection,
>> then you'll need the projection specification they are using in order
>> to back-project that.
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>> What's the nature of the output? Is it values in polygon areas
>> (shapefile features)? Can you not get Darcy to just output the values
>> to a text/csv/spreadsheet file, and then link them back to the
>> shapefile in R (it might be in the same order)?
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>> Any chance you can supply an exemplar SVG on a sharing site somewhere
>> (dont post it to the group)?
>>
>> Barry
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>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Gilles Benjamin Leduc <gbl1 at hi.is> wrote:
>> > Hi,
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>> > For making a part of my work, I needed to use another software named Darcy, I fed it with .shp files ans R calculated values, but it gave me back some map with .svg format.
>> > As their perspective is horible, I need to get them back in R and make a correct graph… Any idea of the way for doing that? I cannot find a way of loading svg, or convert it to shp…
>> > Best Regards
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