And I've managed to produce a SVG->PNG tile http://stuff.rovingrob.com/tiles_svg_png.jpg
This is all done dynamically too... haven't quite done the caching so if i've already generated that tile, i don't have to generate it again... On May 11, 9:19 pm, Rob Scriva <[email protected]> wrote: > Just an update: > > I'm yet to do the conversion from SVG->PNG (imagemagick is compiling > at the moment) but am generating SVG tiles. The look about a billion > times better than the PNG ones I'm generating using GD, apart from the > inability to control the background transparency (I'm no SVG guru, > yet!) > > These are suffering JPG artifacts, but will do for a very crude > example:http://stuff.rovingrob.com/tiles_svg.jpghttp://stuff.rovingrob.com/tiles_gd.jpg > > If you want some higher quality ones (beware, they're about 1MB > each):http://stuff.rovingrob.com/tiles_svg.pnghttp://stuff.rovingrob.com/tiles_png.png(GD) > > and for the sake of comparing a polygon overlayed on top of the tiles > (another large file):http://stuff.rovingrob.com/poly_gd.png > > Will continue my quest for pretty tiles, and post back here with more > info once > > If anyone else has suggestions, I'm happy to take them on board. > > Cheers > Rob > > On May 11, 5:16 pm, Björn Brala <[email protected]> wrote: > > > One tip i can give you is generate an image larger then the default 256*256 > > (eg 1024*1024), then resize it down. From what i remember that is quite a > > fast way to make antialiasing work on the lines. > > > 2009/5/11 Maps.Huge.Info (Google Maps API Guru) <[email protected]> > > > > For tiles, I draw every point for every zoom. > > > > -John Coryat > > > >http://maps.huge.info > > > >http://www.usnaviguide.com > > > >http://www.zipmaps.net > > > -- > > Bjorn Brala > > ----------------www.GeoStart.nl/english/-Google maps - Swis Webdesign > > twitter.com/bbrala --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
