Roger,
I asked a similar question last year
(http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2007-September/002349.html).
Landon Blake and I (and others) came to the conclusion that the answer was to create a
"map surround" library suitable for wrapping as a plug-in to various generic
publishing/compositing applications (such as Inkscape, Scribus, ReportLab, etc) and
possibly some desktop GIS apps (uDig, Quantum, gvSig, OpenJump, etc).
While I still believe that's the ultimate answer, I find myself going back to
Mapserver's mappdf.c (and mapgraticule.c, etc), and speculating on enhancements
to give Mapserver the capability right out of the box.
Brent Fraser
GeoAnalytic Inc.
Roger André wrote:
Hi All,
I'm curious what options have been explored to create tick marks,
graticules and outside-of-map symbology? I'm currently investigating
the use of Matplotlib as a compositer to draw on top of a
Mapserver-generated image, and while I think this will give nice looking
results, the speed of the process is quite slow, probably because
Matplotlib deconstructs the Mapserver image with PIL and works with it
as a numpy array.
I'm interested in hearing about any other tools that allow for the same
sort of "drawing on top of" strategy, preferrably ones with API's.
Thanks,
Roger
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