diff --git a/include/mapnik/svg/output/svg_renderer.hpp b/include/mapnik/svg/output/svg_renderer.hpp
index 0dbbfd3bb..0c053f2f5 100644
--- a/include/mapnik/svg/output/svg_renderer.hpp
+++ b/include/mapnik/svg/output/svg_renderer.hpp
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #include <mapnik/ctrans.hpp>    // for CoordTransform
 #include <mapnik/image_compositing.hpp>  // for composite_mode_e
 #include <mapnik/pixel_position.hpp>
+#include <mapnik/request.hpp>
 
 // boost
 #include <boost/variant/static_visitor.hpp>
@@ -70,7 +71,8 @@ class MAPNIK_DECL svg_renderer : public feature_style_processor<svg_renderer<Out
 {
 public:
     typedef svg_renderer<OutputIterator> processor_impl_type;
-    svg_renderer(Map const& m, OutputIterator& output_iterator, unsigned offset_x=0, unsigned offset_y=0);
+    svg_renderer(Map const& m, OutputIterator& output_iterator, double scale_factor=1.0, unsigned offset_x=0, unsigned offset_y=0);
+    svg_renderer(Map const& m, request const& req, OutputIterator& output_iterator, double scale_factor=1.0, unsigned offset_x=0, unsigned offset_y=0);
     ~svg_renderer();
 
     void start_map_processing(Map const& map);
diff --git a/include/mapnik/util/geometry_svg_generator.hpp b/include/mapnik/util/geometry_svg_generator.hpp
index 070521031..aec04fd8d 100644
--- a/include/mapnik/util/geometry_svg_generator.hpp
+++ b/include/mapnik/util/geometry_svg_generator.hpp
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ namespace mapnik { namespace util {
     {
         typedef boost::spirit::karma::real_policies<T> base_type;
         static int floatfield(T n) { return base_type::fmtflags::fixed; }
-        static unsigned precision(T n) { return 6u ;}
+        static unsigned precision(T n) { return 4u ;}
     };
     }
 
@@ -161,14 +161,14 @@ namespace mapnik { namespace util {
                 ;
 
             linestring = &uint_(mapnik::LineString)[_1 = _type(_val)]
-                << svg_path << lit('\"')
+                << lit("d=\"") << svg_path << lit("\"")
                 ;
 
             polygon = &uint_(mapnik::Polygon)[_1 = _type(_val)]
-                << svg_path << lit('\"')
+                << lit("d=\"") << svg_path << lit("\"")
                 ;
 
-            svg_path %= ((&uint_(mapnik::SEG_MOVETO) << lit("d=\"") << lit('M')
+            svg_path %= ((&uint_(mapnik::SEG_MOVETO) << lit('M')
                           | &uint_(mapnik::SEG_LINETO) [_a +=1] << karma::string [if_(_a == 1) [_1 = "L" ] ])
                          << lit(' ') << coordinate << lit(' ') << coordinate) % lit(' ')
                 ;
diff --git a/src/svg/output/svg_renderer.cpp b/src/svg/output/svg_renderer.cpp
index f940b6252..daaf1b38e 100644
--- a/src/svg/output/svg_renderer.cpp
+++ b/src/svg/output/svg_renderer.cpp
@@ -30,9 +30,10 @@
 
 namespace mapnik
 {
+
 template <typename T>
-svg_renderer<T>::svg_renderer(Map const& m, T & output_iterator, unsigned offset_x, unsigned offset_y) :
-    feature_style_processor<svg_renderer>(m),
+svg_renderer<T>::svg_renderer(Map const& m, T & output_iterator, double scale_factor, unsigned offset_x, unsigned offset_y) :
+    feature_style_processor<svg_renderer>(m, scale_factor),
     output_iterator_(output_iterator),
     width_(m.width()),
     height_(m.height()),
@@ -40,6 +41,16 @@ svg_renderer<T>::svg_renderer(Map const& m, T & output_iterator, unsigned offset
     generator_(output_iterator)
 {}
 
+template <typename T>
+svg_renderer<T>::svg_renderer(Map const& m, request const& req, T & output_iterator, double scale_factor, unsigned offset_x, unsigned offset_y) :
+    feature_style_processor<svg_renderer>(m, scale_factor),
+    output_iterator_(output_iterator),
+    width_(req.width()),
+    height_(req.height()),
+    t_(req.width(),req.height(),req.extent(),offset_x,offset_y),
+    generator_(output_iterator)
+{}
+
 template <typename T>
 svg_renderer<T>::~svg_renderer() {}