world freemap agg/gd view

[Jeff Hoffmann]

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.
> 

This whole AGG thing is new to me -- I was wondering what using it would 
actually buy me other than the sub-pixel rendering.  I was looking at 
the AGG web site and I saw a mention of polygon smoothing using Bezier 
curves and that seemed like it might be useful.  Some of the easily 
available data (like TIGER) have pretty funky shaped lakes/coastlines 
that might benefit from some smoothing once you start zooming in a ways. 
  I wasn't really clear on whether that was a native part of the library 
or just easy to do with AGG, but it seemed like it's something that 
could be pretty easily implemented as a processing directive.  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?

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Jeff Hoffmann
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