<div>Hi Christopher,</div>
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<div>thanks for your detailed information.</div>
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<div>the new element ANGLE FOLLOW does not available in the MS4W1.5.3 version, so it doesn't work for me.</div>
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<div>kind regards</div>
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<div>zhonghai<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Christopher Schmidt</b> <<a href="mailto:crschmidt@crschmidt.net">crschmidt@crschmidt.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:29:30AM +0200, Zhonghai Wang wrote:<br>> Hi there,<br>><br>> nice application!! in addition, I have some questions here:
<br>><br>> 1. are you using PNG24 for the output format? the map image is not so<br>> "clear" if the map is zoomed to biggest map extent. I noticed that you<br>> defined several output formats in the mapfile, are these just simply
<br>> duplicated defenitions or for some other purpose? normally I define only one<br>> outputformat, for example PNG24 or GIF.<br><br>This map is designed to be used in a variety of applications, and I<br>have, in the past, used every single one of those output formats ;) The
<br>current format is actually JPEG -- the reason for this is that:<br>* PNG8 (dithered png) has problems with not having enough space in the<br> color table with antialiasing<br>* PNG24 takes too long to load -- the images are about twice as large
<br>* GIF suffers under the same problems as PNG8, plus the AA doesn't<br> look as good<br><br>> 2. do you label the street names with some special softwares? the street<br>> names are labeled very nice along the street curves. If you don't mind, can
<br>> you give some more hints about this? (I attached a desktop capture for<br>> this.)<br><br>ANGLE FOLLOW does this for me -- this is a relatively new development of<br>Mapserver, and I'm not sure when it came into place: the Freemap server
<br>runs Mapserver out of CVS, so some aspects of it may be not be released<br>yet. (Someone else can probalby comment better on that.)<br><br>> the application is really very fast, good job.<br><br>Thank ka-Map for that :) Paul Spencer's
tile.php work is the only reason<br>that this application is as usable as it is: rendering this much stuff<br>simply didn't work, and without the metaTile generation, the buffers<br>would simply have killed the number of labels you're seeing.
<br><br>I'm really happy with how it's come out, and I'm glad to see that others<br>like it too!<br><br>--<br>Christopher Schmidt<br>Web Developer<br></blockquote></div><br>