Hi,
I have three questions.
1. Is GML suitable for serving spatial data to mobile
apps ? I read in some literature that it is not
suitable for rendering maps in mobile devices ?
2. does geoserver support the mobile SVG format for
mobile devices ?
3. Are there xlst's to tranform GML to other formats ?
Thanks in advance
Roman
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Roman Isitua ha scritto:
Hi,
I have three questions.
1. Is GML suitable for serving spatial data to mobile
apps ? I read in some literature that it is not
suitable for rendering maps in mobile devices ?
Well, indeed parsing GML requires quite some resources
and the format is bulky, so transmission may be slow too
(thought you can gzip compress it).
2. does geoserver support the mobile SVG format for
mobile devices ?
We do have support for standard SVG thru the Batik library,
I don't think it conforms to any mobile spec thought.
I guess you'll have to check by yourself if Geoserver
SVG output is conformant to those specs (would be curious
to hear about your findings).
To get svg, just to a standard getMap request, but use
"image/svg+xml" or "image/svg" as the format instead of
image/png.
GML and SVG have quite some different purposes thought...
GML is a data transport, SVG is a pure vector image,
does not have attributes anymore.
3. Are there xlst's to tranform GML to other formats ?
Hmmm... generic ones, I don't know about, GML has a monster
XSD thus the xslt would be a monster too 
Cheers
Andrea