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Basically, I am working on a strategy game, and provinces on the map are basically comprised of a list of border points (which are used to create a Polygon).
I thought that loading the points from a SVG file "polygon" tag would be a great idea. However, Inkscape doesn't appear to have any way to convert my closed paths into polygons, and loading from a "path" would be relatively difficult because I would have to write code to "follow" the path during curves and add points at regular intervals.
This is very close to what you ask but not quite. As they will be paths in both cases although just simple straight segment paths:
Image 1: Original path (top), result after polygonisation (bottom)
Or alternatively you can probably also use Extensions → Modify Path → Flatten Beziers..., for a more usable polygon. But your mileage may vary.
Image 1: after applying flatten beziers
On the other hand you can do this in a browser easily. Although a fully linear path is almost just as easy to parse as a polygon (it has 2 or 3 letters in the thing otherwise its just a list of points)
