Hello Bob,
Your resources are very useful!
Thank you very much!
Bob Basques wrote:
Adrian,
There are a few online color schemers that you might be interested in. They
set up some nice complimentary color schemes for you automatically.
Some of them also address the fact that there are also color blind folks out
there.
Some that I know of:
http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html
http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
bobb
Adrian Popa <[email protected]> 01/07/09 11:03 AM >>>
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
Bob Basques wrote:
Adrian,
No problem.
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.
Once that stuff boils down some more I'll probably examine it for conversion of
the googlish map file as well.
bobb
Adrian Popa <[email protected]> 01/07/09 12:55 AM >>>
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 :)
Thanks again,
Adrian
Bob Basques wrote:
Adrian,
See attached for example Mapfile. Basically think layering, as in drawing the
line more than one, by stacking lines on top of each other.
bobb
Adrian Popa <[email protected]> 01/06/09 1:48 AM >>>
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
--
Adrian Popa
Network Engineer
Romtelecom S.A.
Divizia Centrul National de Operare Retea
Departament Transport IP & Metro
Compartiment IP Core
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