[OSGeo-Discuss] Working with shapefiles in PHP

[Peter]

Great. So what would be a one paragraph statement of the difference between mapserver and mapnik, in terms of capabilities? This is possibly political, but hey.

Peter

PS, for those interested, my work in progress php class (a collation of lighter tools)
is at http://www.zoneblue.org/files/lib-shapeconvertor.zip




Bill Thoen wrote:
> 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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