[Mapserver-dev] Scale-Dependent Renderers

[bartvde at xs4all.nl]

Hi Paul,

are you doing this conversion process by hand or are you writing an AXL to
MAP utility?

Best regards,
Bart

>
> We recently received a large ArcIMS AXL file, to do a test conversion
> to Mapserver, and one of the things the struck was that AXL has support
> for scale dependent renderers.
> I was struck again by the utility of the concept today, as I wrote four
> scale dependent layers to represent the same data table at four
> different resolutions.  Often, we want to render the same things
> differently at different scales, and forcing the choice at the layer
> level gets very verbose, very fast.
>
> An example would be rendering roads data. At a certain level of zooming
> in, I want to start rendering features somewhat wider than I would at
> full zoom out level.
>
>       Paul Ramsey
>       Refractions Research
>       Email: pramsey at refractions.net
>       Phone: (250) 885-0632
>
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