[mapguide-users] Nice road design

[Dave Wilson]

In the 1.2.0 Beta should be support for Map Units on the line widths.
Which means the line will be proportional to the scale you are zoomed in
at relative to it's starting size. That will probably be more realistic.
You may want to switch to this and change the line style past a certain
scale.

 

Regards,

Dave

 

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Subject: [mapguide-users] Nice road design

 

Hi,

 

 

I'm not sure it is the place to post such question but I'll give it a
try. 

 

I managed to create a nice map of Paris at street level using Studio and
MGOS.  Everything looks great and it's a real pleasure to work with
studio as it is really easy to understand and it allows achieving great
results in very little time. 

 

What I wanted to know however is what kind of scaling strategy to adopt
concerning streets and roads. What I did is create a composite line with
a specific width for my streets and it looks great at a certain scale
but is not very realistic at others. For example if I zoom too much the
width of the streets is still the same as if I was at a lower zoom
levels.  To avoid this I could create different line width for different
scales. Is there some sort of standard scale/road width ratio that I
could use so that roads lines would get relatively bigger as you zoom
into the map? How do you GIS specialists manage this? 

 

Thanks for your help ^^

 

Cheers 

Alex 

 

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