[mapserver-users] Resampling and image quality?

[Gregor Mosheh]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
 > I zoomed in on both, and I don't see the effect you are talking about.
 > Perhaps you need something a little less error prone, like screen
 > snaps that demonstrate what you are talking about!

Sure thing:

http://ms2.geowake.com/ms_fullview.png
http://ms2.geowake.com/ms_3_notches_in.png
http://ms2.geowake.com/ms_5_notches_in.png

http://ms2.geowake.com/png_fullview.png
http://ms2.geowake.com/png_3_notches_in.png
http://ms2.geowake.com/png_5_notches_in.png


Note how the png ones lack the jagged "crunchy" quality, how even the 
smaller text is legible and smooth at the tighter zoomlevels. The 
Mapserver one, though, is illegible and looks as if it's been downsized 
or something.

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