Article about MapServer 5.0

[Steve Lime]

The URL Flavio mentions should be http://test.mapserver.ch/ortsplan/frame.php?lang=en&city=Bern.

Looks great!

Steve

>>> On 8/28/2007 at 4:03 AM, in message
<WorldClient-F200708281103.AA03590001 at tydac.ch>, Flavio Hendry
<flavio at TYDAC.CH> wrote:
> Hi Yves
> 
>> Another question, I tested the new outputformat with AGG, is it
>> possible to get jpg or gif image with it? If so, how can I setting up
>  > mapfile to realize this?
> 
> You should output to 24 bit as far as I know, means JPEG or PNG24 (the
> latter not suggesed, as the files become very large). With JPEG we were
> surprised to see the files being a third or less the size using AGG! And
> the quality is just amazing. 
> 
> See our first test with teleatlas data (zoom in to see the street level):
> http://test/ortsplan/frame.php?lang=en&city=Bern 
> 
> The Map-File changes are straight forward:
> 
> before:
> IMAGETYPE JPEG
> 
> OUTPUTFORMAT
>   NAME jpeg
>   DRIVER "GD/JPEG"
>   MIMETYPE "image/jpeg"
>   IMAGEMODE RGB
>   EXTENSION "jpg"
>   FORMATOPTION "QUALITY=100"
> END
> 
> after:
> IMAGETYPE AGG_JPEG
> 
> OUTPUTFORMAT
>   NAME 'AGG_JPEG'
>   DRIVER AGG/JPEG
>   IMAGEMODE RGB
>   FORMATOPTION "QUANTIZE_FORCE=ON"
>   FORMATOPTION "QUANTIZE_DITHER=OFF"
>   FORMATOPTION "QUANTIZE_COLORS=256"
> END
> 
> Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best Regards
> Flavio Hendry
> 
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