No developer here :) but .. to add to Chris' comments.
AGG was added for one of our customers -- and to be frank it was
mostly driven by the Google bar. There is still lots to go -- and
we're already working on the business drivers to take next steps to
make things that much better.
I'm pretty certain 5.2 and beyond will show some more big leaps in
map quality -- so stick with it, lots more good stuff to come!
Dave
On 3-Aug-07, at 5:05 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:54:16PM -0500, Jeff Hoffmann wrote:
Christopher Schmidt wrote:
LayerSelector (on the upper right) allows you to select between
agg and
gd. Default is GD -- the agg is certainly... brighter. And not
quite the
look I was looking for.
Is there
a "big picture" of what AGG will be used to do eventually (or at
least
some ideas) or was it all pretty much to get a little bit better
anti-aliased output?
I have no clue what AGG was added for, but the difference between
GD and
AGG is what made me switch away from MapServer 8 months ago, and as
time
goes on, I find that more and more of users that I work with say
"Well,
why doesn't it look as good as Google Maps?"
Without the font changes, I'm not quite back to the point where I want
to switch from Mapnik back to MapServer yet, but I don't think that
anyone can say that:
http://boston.freemap.in/kamap.html?
lat=901231.7146&lon=232335.42917&zoom=8&layers=B
vs.
http://boston.freemap.in/?
lat=901231.7146&lon=232335.42917&zoom=8&layers=B
doesn't demonstrate a fairly significant difference in rendering.
It was
certainly enough for me to make the switch from MapServer to Mapnik.
I'll let actual MapServer developers answer the question though, as
I'm
not one.
Regards,
--
Christopher Schmidt
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