Increase Clarity of WMS

[Kyle Mulka]

Here's one of the WMS tiles I'm using. I've tried stretching it using 
different values for the height and width but nothing I've tried has 
made it look better or worse.
http://kylemulka.com/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=floorplans.map&REQUEST=GetMap&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&LAYERS=dude-1&STYLES=&BGCOLOR=0xFFFFFF&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&SRS=EPSG:4326&BBOX=-83.7158203125,42.2905166207974,-83.71444702148438,42.291532494305976&WIDTH=256&HEIGHT=256

-Kyle

Josh Livni wrote:
> Kyle,
> 
> I could be wrong -- I haven't used a mapserver wms in Google Maps - but 
> I think your mapserver image may be being squashed a bit.  It's a bit 
> less wide relative to the height/width of your Imagemagick version. Also 
> the gmap div seems to be a different height/width in the different 
> versions.
> 
> WMS will happily respond with the exact extent, but perhaps not the 
> relative height/width you expect, thus 'squashing' the image, which may 
> be causing the image issues you're seeing.
> 
> You may want to play with this by adding a &height &width to the wms 
> query, or you could try playing with the div height/width ratios, and 
> seeing if you get similar results if one is a bit off, as I may be 
> off-base with this theory.
> 
>   -Josh
> 
> Kyle Mulka wrote:
> 
>> I have these very detailed floor plans that I'd like to georeference 
>> and display through mapserver's WMS sever, however, the clarity of the 
>> images degrades when it goes through. How can I increase the clarity 
>> of these floorplans through the WMS?
>>
>> Here's with mapserver:
>> http://maps.kylemulka.com/floorplan-test10.php
>>
>> Here's without (simply chopping up tiles using Imagemagick)
>> http://maps.kylemulka.com/imagemagick/livedude.php
>>
>> Here's the parts of the map file for just the first floor:
>> MAP
>> NAME "UofM"
>>   FONTSET fontset.txt
>>   PROJECTION
>>       "init=epsg:4326"
>>   END
>> IMAGETYPE png24
>> EXTENT  -83.747063 42.272038 -83.709126 42.297056
>> SHAPEPATH "/umdata/"
>> LAYER
>>   NAME "dude-1"
>>   TYPE raster
>>   DATA "dude1.tif"
>>   PROCESSING "RESAMPLE=AVERAGE"
>>   PROCESSING "DITHER=YES"
>>     METADATA
>>       "wms_title" "dude-1"
>>       "wms_onlineresource" 
>> "http://kylemulka.com/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=floorplans.map&"
>>       "wms_srs" "EPSG:4326"
>>   END
>>   STATUS ON
>> END
>> END
>>
>> -Kyle
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