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ABOUT svg-map-animation
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svg-map-animation is a small tool to generate nice video-clips showing 
an animated track.
The track and the background are simply designed as svg-image e.g. 
with inkscape.



USAGE
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To produce an animated map please execute these steps:

1. open inkscape
2. Draw some nice Bezier-Pathes
3. Rename the Ids of your pathes to the special names A1 A2 A3 ..
   with 'Context-menu -> Object-Properties'
4. safe the Result into an svg-file test.svg
5. convert the test.svg to a test.avi with:
   > svgAnim.rb test.svg
6. view test.avi
   > vlc test.avi


INSTALLING svg-map-animation
----------------------------

The tool is a ruby-script which currently needs no installation.
Just copy the script svgAnim.rb to any bin-directory in your path
or start it from the current directory with:

ruby svgAnim.rb



DEPENDENCIES
------------
ruby
avconv
convert
inkscape


on an Ubuntu(12.4,14.4, 16.4?) system do:

sudo apt-get install ruby libav-tools imagemagick inkscape
Source: README, updated 2016-10-24