[OSGeo-Discuss] Working with shapefiles in PHP

[Bill Thoen]

Peter wrote:
> Regarding my previous query regarding tools to work with shapefiles in 
> PHP, ive written a progress report, that might be useful to other 
> passing PHP GIS newcomers.
>
> http://www.webspaces.net.nz/page.php?view=working_with_shapefiles
Hi Peter,

Thanks for the summary. That sort of stuff is gold for us who are 
newbies with some of these utilities. But I wanted to point out one 
thing you don't have right yet. You wrote:

> Mapnik is the new kid on the block, its used for open street map among 
> other things. It does much of what mapserver does, but _mapnik has 
> anti-aliasing_, hence does nice raster renders. The API is pretty much all

MapServer does too. Just use the AGG driver in the OUTPUTFORMAT object 
in the mapfile to get nice-looking antialiasing over the entire map.


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*Bill Thoen*
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