On Sunday 24 June 2018, Sven Geggus wrote: > > May I mention the fact, that Mapserver is still actively maintained > and that there even is a carto preprocessor called magnacarto which > is able to produce mapserver style files.
Yes, Mapserver has some very powerful features - including even the ability to code styling logic in javascript: http://mapserver.org/de/mapfile/styleitem.html The problem i have with Mapserver from a designer point of view is that it offers a complex high level feature set with many functions clearly intended for direct use. But at the same time the language to formulate this in (the mapfiles) is not really suited to write and manage more complex stuff directly. And Magnacarto only supports the basic features offered by both Mapserver and Mapnik which does not really work for Mapserver in the end since it does not make use of what Mapserver can but Mapnik cannot. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
