Very impressive looking results. Can you please share your mapfile? Many thanks!
Joe Bussell On Dec 31, 2007 11:04 AM, Bob Basques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > bobb > > > >
