[mapserver-users] display road data properly

[Bob Basques]

pn,

I'm the poster of the image you found.  It uses a fairly complex mapfile 
that I put together last year..

There is a copy of the mapfile that produced that output included in 
this PDF:

http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/docs/mapserver-users-manual.pdf

The Mapfile wasn't built against the Census dataset however, so you'll 
need to map the correct Census attributes to each of the Mapfile 
layers.  The Mapfile is documented fairly well, but could use some 
additional commenting.

I would be interested in a version that uses the Census datasets if/when 
you get something working.

Also not, that the Mapfile above was set up for a metro area, not a 
state or national level of zoom, so the longer range scales are not 
included in it.  There are also some tricks at the end of the file for 
generating the Legends.

Have fun.

bobb




new2ms4w wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm using road data from the US census bureau website to display the maps
> and keep the moving objects on them. It basically shows up as follows.
>
> http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2459780/badroad1.jpg 
>
>
> What should I do to display the road data in a professional way like this:
>
> http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2459780/agg_test2.png 
>
>
> Can someone give me some advice. I want the road data to be shown more
> realistically like in google maps/yahoo maps.
>
> Thank you for your time.
> -pn
>
>
> P.S. I found the second image in an old post here.
> http://n2.nabble.com/Google-ish-cartography.-td1994879.html
>