What are you trying to discover or prove? Just 'perfectness of rendering'? Not really something that is necessarily pertinent to cartographic renders. Why not compare them against Illustrator, Ink, etc? :
If you really want to do cartographic, and their "prettiness" then you need to include analysis of symbology, colorization (not uniformity, but choice of color, contrast, etc), and styling of lines. These are what make ugly maps from pretty maps. I think your original criteria are probably rather inconsequential once a basic threshold (e.g. readability) is crossed. Steve Chilton (Society of Cartographers http://www.soc.org.uk/) is a good resource to ping on this. There are also some books such as: Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users Principles of Cartographic Design (http://www.mckinleyville.com/cart/cabinet/cab_cartprinc.html) anything less will be an invalid and misleading study. On 10/10/07, Gilles Bassière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > -- Andrew Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] 42.2774N x 83.7611W http://highearthorbit.com Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography
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