Gilles- Is your idea to measure the quality by having a human look at outputs (subjective metrics) or automatically via some analysis routine (objective metrics)?
-mpg > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gilles Bassière > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 3:01 AM > To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to assess rendering quality? > > Hi list, > > I'm doing a comparative study of OpenSource cartographic servers > (Mapserver, Geoserver and Mapnik). Beside raw performance and > features, > I'd like to assess the rendering quality, say how pretty > produced maps > are. Precisely, I'm interested in the quality of the drawing work, my > point is not about symbology, nor styling of maps. > > I have some problems to find a set of objective criteria I could > benchmark my servers against. So far, I have already identified the > following: > - sharpness of details > - smoothness of lines > - uniformity of colors > > I'm open to any comments. Do you think these criteria are consistent > regarding the purpose of my study? Does anyone have other criteria to > suggest? > > Regards > > -- > Gilles Bassiere > MAKINA CORPUS > 30 rue des Jeuneurs > FR-75011 PARIS > http://www.makina-corpus.com > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss