Hi there,
nice application!! in addition, I have some questions here:
1. are you using PNG24 for the output format? the map image is not so "clear" if the map is zoomed to biggest map extent. I noticed that you defined several output formats in the mapfile, are these just simply duplicated defenitions or for some other purpose? normally I define only one outputformat, for example PNG24 or GIF.
2. do you label the street names with some special softwares? the street names are labeled very nice along the street curves. If you don't mind, can you give some more hints about this? (I attached a desktop capture for this.)
the application is really very fast, good job.
best regards
zhonghai
On 7/6/06, Steve Lime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Beauty Christopher, thanks for sharing- both the application and the under-the-hood information! I look forward to seeing OpenLayers move forward.
Steve
>>> Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/04/06 9:43 AM >>>
It is my distinct pleasure to announce the redesign of the Boston
Free Map:
http://boston.freemap.in/
This map is powered by ka-Map and OpenLayers, using Mapserver as a
rendering engine. More information about the map is available from
http://boston.freemap.in/about.html
Including a link to the mapfile:
http://boston.freemap.in/basemap.map
This map is served through the support of the Free Map project. The Free
Map System is designed to run as an open hosted service for mapping
applications using free and open source software, public and copyleft
geographic data, and community information anywhere in the world.
All data for the Boston Free Map is available under an attribution
license from MassGIS. The mapfile is similarly released under an
attribution license by the Free Map Project.
Mapserver has proved to be a hugely useful tool for rendering, and
ka-Map has successfully solved many of the issues related to creating
and caching tiled images from Mapserver. Many thanks to all
participating members of the Mapserver and ka-Map projects for creating
the software which allows the generation of this map.
Regards,
--
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer
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