Google-ish cartography.

[samiazmi]

Yes I guess the work that you are doing is commendable and it will be great
if u can share the map file so that the efforts can be minimized.

regards
sami

Bob Basques 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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