starting to think about postcodes, and how best to display a map of uk postcode regions. each region will need to have a value associated with it, or maybe even flood filled depending on the value. looking into SVG as a way of formatting and displaying vector based data instead of bitmap (which would be a nightmare me thinks). SVG looks very promising, an XML for vector graphics. messed about with creating a rudamentory map, tracing a gif i found using freehand, then munging the exported data with a few regexps to produce SVG friendly polygons. all looked fine until i relised freehand works with 0,0 in the bottom left, SVG at the top left. everything has come out transposed. looks great, except upside down and twisted by 45 degrees :( will have to work on that, but happy none the less. proved some initial concept stuff. currently using Adobe's SVG plugin to view all this with IE, must find something for FBSD that can render SVG. adobe have produced some fine software, but they sort of miss the point with portability when they only seem to write MS based software.