Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Working with shapefiles in PHP
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 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Working with shapefiles in PHP
> MapServer does too. Just use the AGG driver in the OUTPUTFORMAT object > in the mapfile to get nice-looking antialiasing over the entire map. QGIS can easy produce the mapfile and the map in various format (agg, png, gif, jpeg, etc.) using the Mapserver Export plugin. What you have to do is, add shapefile to the QGIS project and then click the MapServer Export plugin and fill up the form. QGIS can do mapnik map using QuantumNik plugin as base map for Mapserver, Geoserver, New QGIS Server (Map Server), etc. Noli ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Working with shapefiles in PHP
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 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Working with shapefiles in PHP
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 Thanks to everyone for all the great help, you all have been awesome. When ive done the evaluations of Mapserver and Mapnik, ill add to it. Regards Peter ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
