[mapserver-users] Color palette for road-like layers

[Adrian Popa]

Hello Bob,
Your resources are very useful!
Thank you very much!

Bob Basques wrote:
> Adrian,
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> There are a few online color schemers that you might be interested in.  They set up some nice complimentary color schemes for you automatically.
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> Some of them also address the fact that there are also color blind folks out there.
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> Some that I know of:
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> http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html
> http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
> http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
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> bobb
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>>>> Adrian Popa <adrian_gh.popa at romtelecom.ro> 01/07/09 11:03 AM >>>
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> Yeah, but sadly I am stuck with mapserver 4.10, which doesn't even have 
> AGG support :( I'll have to wait until we upgrade to a newer server to 
> start fresh with the new version
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> Bob Basques wrote:
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>> Adrian,
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>> No problem.
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>> You should be aware, that the newer versions of MapServer (I think still dev) have the option of setting outline/edge colors and widths.  My approach is really old school.  The newer methods only involve cycling through the data once and painting vs my stacking approach.
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>> Once that stuff boils down some more I'll probably examine it for conversion of the googlish map file as well.
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>> bobb
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>>>>> Adrian Popa <adrian_gh.popa at romtelecom.ro> 01/07/09 12:55 AM >>>
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>> Hello Bob,
>> Thank you for your help. I had a feeling that you would get those nice 
>> road features by overlaying layers, but I was keeping my fingers crossed 
>> for a simpler, alternate method.
>> I will shamelessly steal the colors in your map :)
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>> Thanks again,
>> Adrian
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>> Bob Basques wrote:
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>>> Adrian,
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>>> See attached for example Mapfile.  Basically think layering, as in drawing the line more than one, by stacking lines on top of each other.
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>>> bobb
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>>>>>> Adrian Popa <adrian_gh.popa at romtelecom.ro> 01/06/09 1:48 AM >>>
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>>> Happy new year everyone!
>>>
>>> I need your help with the aesthetics of my mapserver application. I am 
>>> drawing the map of a country (with cities and villages) and also a layer 
>>> of fiber optics (which can be approximated with a road layer). I have 
>>> the fiber separated by capacity (STM1 being the lowest capacity, going 
>>> to STM64 witch is the highest capacity).
>>>
>>> Currently I am differentiating between fiber of different capacities by 
>>> using different colors and different line thickness. Unfortunately, it 
>>> isn't so pleasant on the eye (see attachment).
>>>
>>> Can you share the colors you use to draw the following elements - so I 
>>> can model my map to look a bit better?
>>> - map background (I'm not using raster images)
>>> - cities
>>> - small towns/villages
>>> - roads
>>> - rivers
>>> - text elements
>>>
>>> Also, a small screen capture, to show the colors would be nice.
>>>
>>> I have an additional question: can elements such as roads be drawn in 
>>> such a way that they look like google maps (see second attachment) - 
>>> meaning not just a single color, but apparently color + boundries?
>>>
>>> Thank you for your help
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-- 
Adrian Popa

Network Engineer
Romtelecom S.A.
Divizia Centrul National de Operare Retea
Departament Transport IP & Metro
Compartiment IP Core


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