I must say, the quality of Mapnik image is really much better, especially the labels.<br><br>Zhonghai<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dave McIlhagga</b> <<a href="mailto:dmcilhagga@dmsolutions.ca">
dmcilhagga@dmsolutions.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">No developer here :) but .. to add to Chris' comments.
<br><br>AGG was added for one of our customers -- and to be frank it was<br>mostly driven by the Google bar. There is still lots to go -- and<br>we're already working on the business drivers to take next steps to<br>make things that much better.
<br><br>I'm pretty certain 5.2 and beyond will show some more big leaps in<br>map quality -- so stick with it, lots more good stuff to come!<br><br>Dave<br><br><br>On 3-Aug-07, at 5:05 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:<br>
<br>> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:54:16PM -0500, Jeff Hoffmann wrote:<br>>> Christopher Schmidt wrote:<br>>><br>>>> LayerSelector (on the upper right) allows you to select between<br>>>> agg and
<br>>>> gd. Default is GD -- the agg is certainly... brighter. And not<br>>>> quite the<br>>>> look I was looking for.<br>>>><br>>><br>>> Is there<br>>> a "big picture" of what AGG will be used to do eventually (or at
<br>>> least<br>>> some ideas) or was it all pretty much to get a little bit better<br>>> anti-aliased output?<br>><br>> I have no clue what AGG was added for, but the difference between<br>> GD and
<br>> AGG is what made me switch away from MapServer 8 months ago, and as<br>> time<br>> goes on, I find that more and more of users that I work with say<br>> "Well,<br>> why doesn't it look as good as Google Maps?"
<br>><br>> Without the font changes, I'm not quite back to the point where I want<br>> to switch from Mapnik back to MapServer yet, but I don't think that<br>> anyone can say that:<br>><br>> <a href="http://boston.freemap.in/kamap.html">
http://boston.freemap.in/kamap.html</a>?<br>> lat=901231.7146&lon=232335.42917&zoom=8&layers=B<br>><br>> vs.<br>><br>> <a href="http://boston.freemap.in/">http://boston.freemap.in/</a>?<br>> lat=
901231.7146&lon=232335.42917&zoom=8&layers=B<br>><br>> doesn't demonstrate a fairly significant difference in rendering.<br>> It was<br>> certainly enough for me to make the switch from MapServer to Mapnik.
<br>><br>> I'll let actual MapServer developers answer the question though, as<br>> I'm<br>> not one.<br>><br>> Regards,<br>> --<br>> Christopher Schmidt<br>> MetaCarta<br></blockquote></div>
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