[mapserver-dev] Need mapfile for AGG and Transparent overlay

[Thomas Bonfort]

Steve,
Why would you want aliased output?
Why isn't RGBA+quantization sufficient in your case?

best regards,
thomas

www.camptocamp.com
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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 22:20, Stephen Woodbridge
<woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
> Thomas,
>
> I think this is mostly directed at you. I have been using your sample OSM
> mapfile and it is really great - Thanks for putting this together.
>
> It raises an issue that I think needs to be dealt with, but maybe I'm
> missing some feature that is already implemented.
>
> My use case is that I need a single mapfile that I can use for antialiased
> rendering like your file above, but I also need to generate transparent
> overlay images of just the road network by selecting just those layers or
> group. For example, in Openlayers, I need to have google like controls for
> [map][hybrid][etc] where the [map] view is like above and the hybrid view is
> satellite imagery as an OL layer and transparent road network overlay in OL.
>
> So it would be nice if we can use a single mapfile to do both.
>
> In OL, I would set the overlay layer to be:
>  imagetype: 'png',
>  transparency: 'on',
>  antialias: 'off',
>  ...
>
> or whatever and then the mapfile would be interpreted correctly for
> generating a non-antialiased transparent image.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. Can this be done now? or do I need to build a separate mapfile for these
> two tasks?
>
> 2. Does this sound like a reasonable goal? Achievable in 6.0?
>
> 3. There were some posts that hinted that you might be trying to obsolete
> the gd rendering code, which I do not have a problem with. How would this
> impact this issue?
>
> I hope this all makes sense.
>
> Thanks,
>  -Steve W
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