Yes I guess the work that you are doing is commendable and it will be great if u can share the map file so that the efforts can be minimized.
regards sami Bob Basques wrote: > > All, > > I'm making good progress on my Google-ish cartography mapfile creation, > see the attached links. I will be publishing it to the GeoMoose site as > a mapfile once it's ready. It should be portable to use against the > Census tiger centerlines as well, actually it should be fairly easy to > apply to any centerline data set with the correct classifications > available. I'm using a local data set though, so there are likely to be > some differences. If anyone has a tiger data set available somewhere to > try it out on, I would be interested in those results. I'm trying to > add Documentation as I go in the MapFile as well. > > Why am I doing this, actually I'm just trying to get a jumping off > point, where I can take this generic "Google-ish" version of a MapFile, > and re-theme for my own uses, problably > > Link to screen shot of AGG sampled output: > http://pwultra5.ci.stpaul.mn.us/cp_tiles/temp/agg_test2.png > > Link to screen shot of non-agg sampled output: > http://pwultra5.ci.stpaul.mn.us/cp_tiles/temp/agg_test.png > > There are still some little things like the centering of the numbers in > the highway shield, as in they moved a pixel or two to the left in the > AGG output. Also, Google seems to use some sort of ADT (Traffic Counts) > for it's classification of the roads, so I'll need to research that a > bit I think. Some of the collectors are not highlighted in yellow like > those in the Google output. I also took some liberty with their > Interstate Shields and made them bigger. > > Also, here is a comparative Google link of the links from above : > http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=45.0011,-93.227014&spn=0.014232,0.030341&z=15&om=1 > > > bobb > > > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Google-ish-cartography.-tp14561115p14630493.html Sent from the Mapserver - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
