Hi, Roeland Douma wrote: > I am trying to generate nice maps of the neighbourhood. To make really nice > maps I of course use vector graphics since well... you know.
Actually bitmap graphics are often underestimated. People repeat the mantra that bitmaps are crap but almost any medium you can view maps on will rely on bitmaps so if done properly, bitmaps can work very well. Post-processing is certainly an issue but as you have noted, Cairo-generated SVG is not much better than a bitmap. I don't know what your source data is. If you are working with OpenStreetMap data then try the or/p (or Osmarender) renderer which is rather slow compared to Mapnik and only works on small-ish files but it should be perfect for a "neighbourhood" area. The SVN generated by Osmarender is still not perfect (e.g. road casings and core are on different SVG layers and cannot be moved together), but at least you can edit text very well - move labels around or change them, insert spaces into street names so that the label doesn't cross another label at an intersection and so on. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
