world freemap agg/gd view

[Dave McIlhagga]

No developer here :) but .. to add to Chris' comments.

AGG was added for one of our customers -- and to be frank it was  
mostly driven by the Google bar. There is still lots to go -- and  
we're already working on the business drivers to take next steps to  
make things that much better.

I'm pretty certain 5.2 and beyond will show some more big leaps in  
map quality -- so stick with it, lots more good stuff to come!

Dave


On 3-Aug-07, at 5:05 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:54:16PM -0500, Jeff Hoffmann wrote:
>> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> LayerSelector (on the upper right) allows you to select between  
>>> agg and
>>> gd. Default is GD -- the agg is certainly... brighter. And not  
>>> quite the
>>> look I was looking for.
>>>
>>
>> Is there
>> a "big picture" of what AGG will be used to do eventually (or at  
>> least
>> some ideas) or was it all pretty much to get a little bit better
>> anti-aliased output?
>
> I have no clue what AGG was added for, but the difference between  
> GD and
> AGG is what made me switch away from MapServer 8 months ago, and as  
> time
> goes on, I find that more and more of users that I work with say  
> "Well,
> why doesn't it look as good as Google Maps?"
>
> Without the font changes, I'm not quite back to the point where I want
> to switch from Mapnik back to MapServer yet, but I don't think that
> anyone can say that:
>
> http://boston.freemap.in/kamap.html? 
> lat=901231.7146&lon=232335.42917&zoom=8&layers=B
>
> vs.
>
> http://boston.freemap.in/? 
> lat=901231.7146&lon=232335.42917&zoom=8&layers=B
>
> doesn't demonstrate a fairly significant difference in rendering.  
> It was
> certainly enough for me to make the switch from MapServer to Mapnik.
>
> I'll let actual MapServer developers answer the question though, as  
> I'm
> not one.
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta