Google-ish cartography.

[Joe Bussell]

Very impressive looking results.  Can you please share your mapfile?

Many thanks!

Joe Bussell



On Dec 31, 2007 11:04 AM, Bob Basques <Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:

>  All,
>
> I'm making good progress on my Google-ish cartography mapfile creation,
> see the attached links.  I will be publishing it to the GeoMoose site as a
> mapfile once it's ready.  It should be portable to use against the  Census
> tiger centerlines as well, actually it should be fairly easy to apply to any
> centerline data set with the correct classifications available.  I'm using a
> local data set though, so there are likely to be some differences.  If
> anyone has a tiger data set available somewhere to try it out on, I would be
> interested in those results.  I'm trying to add Documentation as I go in the
> MapFile as well.
>
> Why am I doing this, actually I'm just trying to get a jumping off point,
> where I can take this generic "Google-ish" version of a MapFile, and
> re-theme for my own uses, problably
>
> Link to screen shot of AGG sampled output:
> http://pwultra5.ci.stpaul.mn.us/cp_tiles/temp/agg_test2.png
>
> Link to screen shot of non-agg sampled output:
> http://pwultra5.ci.stpaul.mn.us/cp_tiles/temp/agg_test.png
>
> There are still some little things like the centering of the numbers in
> the highway shield, as in they moved a pixel or two to the left in the AGG
> output.  Also, Google seems to use some sort of ADT (Traffic Counts) for
> it's classification of the roads, so I'll need to research that a bit I
> think.  Some of the collectors are not highlighted in yellow like those in
> the Google output.  I also took some liberty with their Interstate Shields
> and made them bigger.
>
> Also, here is a comparative Google link of the links from above :
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=45.0011,-93.227014&spn=0.014232,0.030341&z=15&om=1
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> bobb
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