Drawing streets like google local

[Philip Mark Donaghy]

Thanks for the tip Gregor.

On 12/12/06, Gregor Mosheh <gregor at hostgis.com> wrote:
> > I would like to give users the familiarity of common internet maps.
> > Can anyone point me to a way to render lines similar to google or
> > yahoo maps?
>
> The basic trick is as follows: use 2 symbols with different colors, so you
> get a thick line with an outline effect. Example:
>
>     # plain old streets: medium grey outlines on a white fill.
>     STYLE
>       SYMBOL 'line_solid'
>       COLOR 180 180 180
>       SIZE 3
>     END
>     STYLE
>       SYMBOL 'line_solid'
>       COLOR 255 255 255
>       SIZE 1
>     END

To complete this post I am posting the symbol definition that works for me.

  SYMBOL
    NAME 'line_solid'
    TYPE ELLIPSE
    POINTS 1 1 END
    FILLED TRUE
  END

Does someone have this figured out for railroads?

Philip

>
> Make several classes (highways, interstates, city roads) using whatever
> classification criteria your data gives you. Then tweak the sizes and
> colors, e.g. two shades of beige and sizes 5 and 3, two shades of darker
> brown and sizes 4 and 6 for major city roads, ...
>
> A great resource for colors is Visibone's color lab:
>    http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/
>
> I hope this helps.
>
>


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