G'day John, Basically the zipmap tiles are similar to what I'm generating now. Ultimately I'm looking to generate polygons that are similar to the ones generated by the API itself. They're a lot prettier and smoother. I can't seem to be able to generate anything like them using GD. It may have to do with the version of GD that's compiled into PHP. I tried to avoid Imagemagick initially because it's not compiled into my version of PHP, and I'd rather see what else is available before going that route.
I might try to generate some SVG's that i convert (or something) just for fun. Out of interest, are you generating polygons based on every point? Or do you have subsets of points because at higher zoom levels (as you approach 0) the amount of detail required isn't as much (which is what I'm doing). Cheers Rob PS your examples worked a treat for me after converting your perl modules to PHP :) Just have to clean them up into a class or something once i get it all working how I want it to :) On May 11, 2:00 pm, "Maps.Huge.Info (Google Maps API Guru)" <[email protected]> wrote: > There's ImageMagick which works with PHP or Perl. It's a lot more > complicated than GD but does a whole lot more. > > I'm a bit puzzled at why you find GD lacking. I've never run into a > case building tiles where it fell short. Have you seen this page: > > http://www.zipmap.net > > It uses a tile layer that runs from zoom 5 to 17 and has very crisp > and clear tiles. > > -John Coryat > > http://maps.huge.info > > http://www.usnaviguide.com > > http://www.zipmaps.net --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
