Boston Free Map

[Zhonghai Wang]

Hi there,

nice application!! in addition, I have some questions here:

1. are you using PNG24 for the output format? the map image is not so
"clear" if the map is zoomed to biggest map extent. I noticed that you
defined several output formats in the mapfile, are these just simply
duplicated defenitions or for some other purpose? normally I define only one
outputformat, for example PNG24 or GIF.
2. do you label the street names with some special softwares? the street
names are labeled very nice along the street curves. If you don't mind, can
you give some more hints about this? (I attached a desktop capture for
this.)

the application is really very fast, good job.

best regards

zhonghai


On 7/6/06, Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us> wrote:
>
> Beauty Christopher, thanks for sharing- both the application and the
> under-the-hood information! I look forward to seeing OpenLayers move
> forward.
>
> Steve
>
> >>> Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at CRSCHMIDT.NET> 07/04/06 9:43 AM >>>
> It is my distinct pleasure to announce the redesign of the Boston
> Free Map:
>
>   http://boston.freemap.in/
>
> This map is powered by ka-Map and OpenLayers, using Mapserver as a
> rendering engine. More information about the map is available from
>
> http://boston.freemap.in/about.html
>
> Including a link to the mapfile:
>
> http://boston.freemap.in/basemap.map
>
> This map is served through the support of the Free Map project. The Free
> Map System is designed to run as an open hosted service for mapping
> applications using free and open source software, public and copyleft
> geographic data, and community information anywhere in the world.
>
> All data for the Boston Free Map is available under an attribution
> license from MassGIS. The mapfile is similarly released under an
> attribution license by the Free Map Project.
>
> Mapserver has proved to be a hugely useful tool for rendering, and
> ka-Map has successfully solved many of the issues related to creating
> and caching tiled images from Mapserver. Many thanks to all
> participating members of the Mapserver and ka-Map projects for creating
> the software which allows the generation of this map.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> Web Developer
>
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