Great. So what would be a one paragraph statement of the difference between
mapserver and mapnik, in terms of capabilities? This is possibly political, but
hey.
Peter
PS, for those interested, my work in progress php class (a collation of lighter
tools)
is at http://www.zoneblue.org/files/lib-shapeconvertor.zip
Bill Thoen wrote:
Peter wrote:
Regarding my previous query regarding tools to work with shapefiles in
PHP, ive written a progress report, that might be useful to other
passing PHP GIS newcomers.
http://www.webspaces.net.nz/page.php?view=working_with_shapefiles
Hi Peter,
Thanks for the summary. That sort of stuff is gold for us who are
newbies with some of these utilities. But I wanted to point out one
thing you don't have right yet. You wrote:
Mapnik is the new kid on the block, its used for open street map among
other things. It does much of what mapserver does, but _mapnik has
anti-aliasing_, hence does nice raster renders. The API is pretty much all
MapServer does too. Just use the AGG driver in the OUTPUTFORMAT object
in the mapfile to get nice-looking antialiasing over the entire map.
--
*Bill Thoen*
GISnet - www.gisnet.com
303-786-9961
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