Adobe SVG Zone is the Adobe Systems showcase for SVG. Adobe have developed the leading SVG viewer (ASV3) and included a ‘save as SVG’ option to their ‘Illustrator’ drawing software. The SVG Zone is typical of many SVG related sites in that it gives examples of SVG and a page of hyperlinks to other sites promoting SVG. URL http://www.adobe.com/svg/demos/main.html [2 October 2003]

KevLinDev is the homepage of Kevin Lindsey, a software developer, who has developed a site demonstrating some of the features of SVG, including examples of interaction with JavaScript; I have developed SVG code from ideas on this site. However as it seeks to demonstrate complex SVG principles Lindsey has had to advise users that the site works best using the ASV3 viewer, demonstrating the fact that different SVG viewers have different capabilities. This is a restriction to access. URL http://www.kevlindev.com/ [8 October 2003]

Carto.net is a site primarily developed to promote the display cartography on the Internet, which argue Neumann and Winter (2001) SVG is ideally suited to. This is a dynamic site offering academic papers presented by Neumann and Winter, a help section on developing SVG and hyperlinks to cartographic SVG sites.
URL http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/links/ [2 October 2003]
CV for A. Neumann. URL http://www.karto.ethz.ch/neumann/ [2 October 2003]
CV for A. Winter. URL http://www.carto.net/andre.mw/ [2 October 2003]

DBx Geomatics Inc. a Canadian cartographic company that recognises the potential of SVG as a medium for displaying cartography. Their site offers a number of examples, but it is interesting to note that any commercial work they have undertaken with SVG is only published on their clients Intranet. This may be an indication of the copyright concerns cartographers have with SVG (as discussed in the review of literature) and that it is simpler to ensure that all users are viewing the site with the viewer intended by the developer.
URL http://www.dbxgeomatics.com/SVG.asp [16 November 2003]

National Cancer Institute (USA) has a site displaying interactive mortality charts and graphs. The user has a choice to view in Flash, SVG or GIF formats. This is the only site that offers SVG content with no qualification at all about the material being for demonstration (or similar) purpose out with the field of cartography. In this context there is no apparent difference between the Flash and SVG images, but the GIF does not have any interactivity.
URL http://www3.cancer.gov/atlasplus/charts.html [20 November 2003]

SVG Games was created on 7 November 2003 to promote games developed in SVG, which could be considered an indication of the rate of change in this field. At the time of writing there are 7 games on the site, 2 of which are not playable at a screen resolution of 800*600 as the viewBox is too large. Another game (svgGP) affords the user such limited control as to be unplayable. One game, ‘SVG Turtles’ is quite playable and challenging. More than being a demonstration of the rate of change this site can be considered as an indication as to how much work is required in order to produce entertaining games.
URL http://a.1asphost.com/svggames/ [17 December 2003]