MapServer 5.0.0 released!

[thomas bonfort]

ok , I'll see how we can incorporate that...
how much time does the same map take to be rendered with gd ?

tb

On 9/19/07, Nolte, Tim <Tim.Nolte at ipcswirelessinc.com> wrote:
> Thomas,
>
> You've totally made my day. I was finally able to get your patch applied
> today. I tested it out and it works wonderfully. My mapfile went from a
> whopping 17sec down to a little over 5sec. I don't know if this feature
> would ever actually make it into the full release but it's a keeper as
> far as I'm concerned.
>
> ----
> Timothy J Nolte - tnolte at ilpcs.com
> Associate Network Planning Engineer
>
> iPCS Wireless, Inc.
> 4717 Broadmoor Ave, Suite G
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>
> Office: 616-656-5163
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thomas bonfort [mailto:thomas.bonfort at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 1:46 PM
> To: Nolte, Tim
> Cc: MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] MapServer 5.0.0 released!
>
> On 9/18/07, Nolte, Tim <Tim.Nolte at ipcswirelessinc.com> wrote:
> > Thomas,
> >
> > I'll give this a try, and see what I get. Thanks. I'll let you how it
>   > works. Just so I get this straight I add "ANTIALIAS FALSE" to my
> layer
> > after the patch and that layer won't be antialiased, correct?
>
> nope, that's not it..
> you create the symbol definition in your symbol file or inlined in
> your mapfile. and then you set the layers you want rendered fast to
> LAYER
> NAME blablba
> DATA ...
>  CLASS
>   STYLE
>    COLOR r g b
>    SYMBOL 'aliased'
>   END
>  END
> END
>
> it's slower than gd but did speed up dense line drawings by a factor
> of 3 when i tried it, less with polygons.
>
> tb
>
> >
> >
> > ----
> > Timothy J Nolte - tnolte at ilpcs.com
> > Associate Network Planning Engineer
> >
> > iPCS Wireless, Inc.
> > 4717 Broadmoor Ave, Suite G
> > Kentwood, MI 49512
> >
> > Office: 616-656-5163
> > PCS:    616-706-2438
> > Fax:    616-554-6484
> > Web: www.ipcswirelessinc.com
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thomas bonfort [mailto:thomas.bonfort at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 12:31 PM
> > To: Nolte, Tim
> > Cc: MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu
> > Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] MapServer 5.0.0 released!
> >
> > Tim,
> >
> > Attached is a patch you can apply to mapagg.cpp - if you can't apply
> > it I'll mail you the whole file.
> >
> > it basically switches to aliased rendering if you use
> > SYMBOL
> > TYPE SIMPLE
> > ANTIALIASED FALSE
> > NAME 'aliased'
> > END
> >
> > it'll work *only* on line and polygon layers, if you specify a
> > STYLE
> > NAME 'aliased'
> > COLOR  r g b
> > END
> >
> > nothing other is supported (line widths, or polygon outlines)
> >
> > I'd be interested to hear about timings if you can try it
> >
> > tb
> >
>
>