Comments on: Open GIS http://www.projectx.co.nz/2007/10/open-gis/ Specialist Technology Consulting Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:58:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: tom2 http://www.projectx.co.nz/2007/10/open-gis/comment-page-1/#comment-89 tom2 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:20:50 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/2007/10/19/open-gis/#comment-89 @ben : please explain how "more modern" == better fit for a given task , especially from a user's point of view @tom : glad you find the new rendering usefull. please don't hesitate to post your impressions or suggestions to the mapserver mailing list. as that functionality is quite new, any feedback on what you get vs. what you expected is welcome. @ben : please explain how “more modern” == better fit for a given task , especially from a user’s point of view

@tom : glad you find the new rendering usefull. please don’t hesitate to post your impressions or suggestions to the mapserver mailing list. as that functionality is quite new, any feedback on what you get vs. what you expected is welcome.

]]> By: tom http://www.projectx.co.nz/2007/10/open-gis/comment-page-1/#comment-88 tom Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:11:45 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/2007/10/19/open-gis/#comment-88 We used to, and the Australian site is still based on MapServer tiles. But Manifold (one of the few non-Open Source tools we use operationally) offered much better cartographic output, so the NZ tiles are currently rendered with that. We've done some other rendering entirely in MapServer, though, and I like its power and flexibility, so we may look to use it soon now that 5.0 is producing such clean output. We used to, and the Australian site is still based on MapServer tiles. But Manifold (one of the few non-Open Source tools we use operationally) offered much better cartographic output, so the NZ tiles are currently rendered with that. We’ve done some other rendering entirely in MapServer, though, and I like its power and flexibility, so we may look to use it soon now that 5.0 is producing such clean output.

]]> By: izo http://www.projectx.co.nz/2007/10/open-gis/comment-page-1/#comment-87 izo Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:37:38 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/2007/10/19/open-gis/#comment-87 Were you guys using mapserver to generate tiles on your zoomin website ? Were you guys using mapserver to generate tiles on your zoomin website ?

]]> By: Ben http://www.projectx.co.nz/2007/10/open-gis/comment-page-1/#comment-86 Ben Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:22:55 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/2007/10/19/open-gis/#comment-86 Cool - that does look good. Looking forward to seeing new tiles from you guys! Have you got rendering over ec2 + s3 working? That'd be really awesome - you could rerender the world overnight. :) Cool – that does look good. Looking forward to seeing new tiles from you guys! Have you got rendering over ec2 + s3 working? That’d be really awesome – you could rerender the world overnight. :)

]]> By: tom http://www.projectx.co.nz/2007/10/open-gis/comment-page-1/#comment-83 tom Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:22:24 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/2007/10/19/open-gis/#comment-83 Mapnik does look good, but I don't think it's quite as full-featured as MapServer: more of a library than a package. The rendering quality seems similar now that MapServer has AGG, according to <a href="http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=77" rel="nofollow">this comparison</a>. Mapnik does look good, but I don’t think it’s quite as full-featured as MapServer: more of a library than a package. The rendering quality seems similar now that MapServer has AGG, according to this comparison.

]]> By: Ben http://www.projectx.co.nz/2007/10/open-gis/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Ben Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:25:13 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/2007/10/19/open-gis/#comment-85 Mapnik was what I meant! http://mapnik.org/tiling/london_tube/ Fucking antispam Mapnik was what I meant!

http://mapnik.org/tiling/london_tube/

Fucking antispam

]]> By: tom http://www.projectx.co.nz/2007/10/open-gis/comment-page-1/#comment-84 tom Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:05:31 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/2007/10/19/open-gis/#comment-84 I think openlayers is more of a tile viewing system than a map renderer, so it can use tiles created by any server. The <a href="http://boston.freemap.in/" rel="nofollow">Boston Free Map</a> is one example that uses Mapserver 5.0 antialiased tiles, and it looks pretty good. I think I've heard something about OpenLayers being associated with GeoServer, but I'm not sure. GeoServer could definitely be worth looking into, but I think that MapServer is now ready to do what we want. It would certainly be nice not to have to wrangel with Manifold any more! I think openlayers is more of a tile viewing system than a map renderer, so it can use tiles created by any server. The Boston Free Map is one example that uses Mapserver 5.0 antialiased tiles, and it looks pretty good. I think I’ve heard something about OpenLayers being associated with GeoServer, but I’m not sure. GeoServer could definitely be worth looking into, but I think that MapServer is now ready to do what we want. It would certainly be nice not to have to wrangel with Manifold any more!

]]> By: Ben http://www.projectx.co.nz/2007/10/open-gis/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Ben Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:12:49 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/2007/10/19/open-gis/#comment-82 Have you tried the engine they use for openlayers - its really nice - antialiased, polished and much more modern than mapserver. Have you tried the engine they use for openlayers – its really nice – antialiased, polished and much more modern than mapserver.

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