Hello everyone, We've been using Mapserver for several years. Mapserver is a great map rendering tool. Almost perfect ;) we actually miss one thing to produce beautiful maps : the ability to set compositing or blurring filters for layers.
Unfortunately in Mapserver the only option for compositing layers is by setting a layer’s opacity. As you know this approach has some limitations. The opacity settings when overlaying layers don’t get the best results. All layers are partially faded out. Until now, the only way to get blending/blurring is to export a map, using third-party tools playing with the layer modes there and finally combining them. But this requires a lot of work. Having this implemented internally would opens new interesting doors. We all have seen maps from Stamen, TileMill/Mapbox or even from QGIS2.0 using compositing / blurring. These effects are more and more used by cartographers to fine tune how layers are blended together. That would be a great enhancement if Masperver could supports these processings natively. (See attached examples) It seems that we would have to raise approximately €10k in total. We actually are not able to fully support this development alone. So we’re turning to the list to see if other organization would be interested in co-funding with us this kind of enhancement? So please let us know. Regards, Ludovic Gnemmi – RGD 73-74 OpacityVsBlending.png <http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/file/n5135694/OpacityVsBlending.png> TileMill_blur_filter_effect.jpg <http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/file/n5135694/TileMill_blur_filter_effect.jpg> -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Adding-support-for-blending-mode-blurring-filter-call-for-co-funding-tp5135694.html Sent from the Mapserver - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
