Probably a bit of overkill for what amounts to a visual effect. I was thinking about this a bit more this evening and wonder if we could use the GEOMTRANSFORM functionality and create an "extrude" geometry transform. A little trickier than the ones currently supported since this one would produce multiple shapes rather than a single multi-polygon. Would be kinda neat though and totally self contained. Think about turning a line into a curtain for instance.
Steve ________________________________________ From: Jan Hartmann [j.l.h.hartm...@uva.nl] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 10:31 AM To: Lime, Steve D (DNR) Cc: Jackey Cheung; Lars Lingner; mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Can map server do this? Looks a bit like Sketchup. How about a driver for Sketchup 3D? It has already input- en output facilities for DXF and DEM Jan On 04/26/10 16:51, Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote: I can't tell from the example but it doesn't look like the map itself is oblique rather that the buildings are drawn in 2.5D. If so, this probably can be reduced to a data pre-processing exercise. I created a small test case (see attached) where a the pieces of a cube are drawn by MapServer. It was quick and dirty but it shows MapServer can possibly render like the example you referenced. Key is producing the cube (sides, top, and bottom) data. I would expect that could be done ahead of time via a script where you offset the footprint in the y direction by a height value and then compute the sides- each as a separate shape. I suppose it would be possible to create a plugin layer for this type of data (footprint + height) but easiest route is probably data pre-processing.... Something to try anyway. Steve ___________________________________ From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> [mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org>] On Behalf Of Jackey Cheung [cheung.jac...@gmail.com<mailto:cheung.jac...@gmail.com>] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 2:53 AM To: Lars Lingner Cc: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Can map server do this? Your effect is shadow like effects, not the "cube" like effect. On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Lars Lingner <m...@lingner.eu<mailto:m...@lingner.eu><mailto:m...@lingner.eu><mailto:m...@lingner.eu>> wrote: Jackey Cheung schrieb: Just found a web site today. The map looks pretty like Google map, except that it's not on Google. Can map server do this? Or anyone has any idea which application can render this kind of image? I got a similar result using opacity and offset with MapServer. See image http://www.lingner.eu/mydownloads/pics/icc_building.png Lars _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org><mailto:mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org><mailto:mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
