Zooming and panning svg images using raphael.js or some other js library

Question

I am in need of a small script that will display an SVG (vector image) within a frame that has 2 functions;

1. The image can be panned (moved around to look at different parts of the svg image with the cursor) simmilar to google maps.

2. The SVG image can be zoomed in and out on also simmilar to google maps except there will be no need to load new imagery as the image is a vector.

For a simmilar script i have seen that works with normal image formats see http://jibbering.com/routeplanner/

Solution 1

If someone is still interested: I just found this implementation of Pan and Zoom for Raphael. Still a very young project, but interesting enough I think:

https://github.com/escobar5/raphael-pan-zoom

Online demo here: http://htmlpreview.github.com/?https://raw.github.com/escobar5/raphael-pan-zoom/master/examples/complete-map/index.html

Solution 2

Raphael is good, but not good enough.

Check out this page: http://code.google.com/p/svgpan/. It does exactly what you asked for.

Solution 3

I've derived Andrea's SVGPan into a (hopefully) more friendly Raphäel plugin :)

Solution 4

First you need to learn how to install a function that extends Raphael to support zooming... http://www.irunmywebsite.com/raphael/additionalhelp.html?q=addownmethodstocanvas

Next you want to implement Wout's zooming plugin... http://github.com/wout/raphael-zoom

Solution 5

You can try the scripts from IE9 test page http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/42OrganizationChart/Default.xhtml Requires a little tweaking with ids but worked fine for me.

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