With version 8.1, Mappetizer for ArcGIS now supports the free online map OpenStreetMap. With this you have access to a street map which makes you independent of Google Maps, Bing Maps and their terms of services. In many cases OpenStreetMap is much more detailed as the other maps too.
Also the Wikipedia Geocoding Webservice by GeoNames is supported.
Please have a look on our example.

The image that comes with the Wikipedia entry on Scalable Vector Graphics (click for SVG source !#%&) can use some improvements.

Looking at the image:

• update version to 1.1
• fix indenting

Looking at the source:

• use text elements for text
• scour it

Questions:

For those who couldn't make it to SVG Open this year, there's a little Follow-Up at the SVG Open website. If you have any links to blogposts or photos, please tell the organizers.

KIYUT just released Sketsa SVG Editor 6.2.1, a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG. It features various tools for optimizing content creation, giving designers unsurpassed support for creativity. These tools include property palette, source editor, resources editor, SVG specific shape tools, transformation tools, and additional illustration tools. Sketsa uses SVG as a native file format.

This is an open source thing written in JavaScript with SVG. It runs well in IE/ASV, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari. We described the thing at SVG Open (but it was in the "small room" so some of you missed it.
http://www.svgopen.org/2009/papers/42-Grapher__an_open_source_SVGbased_w...

At Jeff Schiller's encouragement, we will work on moving it to a Google Code Project.

For now take a look at http://granite.sru.edu/dailey09/grapher.html (there is an old VML version for IE only at llinks visible from http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/grapher/)

At inEvo we are developing our AS3 SVG framework. This framework enable SVG render and edition.
It now as a new concept that enable new partnerships between SVG and AS3. The new concept is SVG + Semantics.
Adding Semantics to SVG nodes and elements enables behaviour and context information to any SVG graphical element. From the post:

Mappetizer! - MapViewSVG with a new name and further news.

MapViewSVG, the powerful tool to create Web maps, will now be presented with a new name: Mappetizer.
With this we change the name, but the innovation will continue: Demanding Online-GIS-Applications on the base of vector technologies, which are supported from all major browsers and don't need any specific web server technology.

SVG Open 2009, the 7th International Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics,
titled "SVG coming of age", will be held at the Google Crittenden Campus in
Mountain View, California on October 2-4 2009, with additional workshops on
October 5. Hosted by Google, sponsored by Opera, and supported by
the Open Ajax Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
The SVG Open conference series is the premier forum for SVG designers,
developers, and implementors to share ideas, experiences, products, and strategies.
Over 60 presentations will be delivered from SVG experts all over the world,

KIYUT just released Sketsa SVG Editor 6.0, a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG. It features various tools for optimizing content creation, giving designers unsurpassed support for creativity. These tools include property palette, source editor, resources editor, SVG specific shape tools, transformation tools, and additional illustration tools. Sketsa uses SVG as a native file format.

What's new:

• Improve Image Insert to allow embedding SVG vector

KDE4 is loaded with SVG, and with the release of K Office 2.0 more advantages start showing up:

... any KOffice application can handle any shape. For instance, KWord can embed bitmap graphics, Krita can embed vector graphics and Karbon can embed charts. This flexibility does not only give KOffice unprecedented integration, but also allows new applications to be created very easily. Such applications can e.g. target special user groups like kids or certain professions...