Roger,
While it's not really Drawing perse, we use the GeoMoose interface to
do this type of printing, since the GeoMoose interface abstracts out all
it's map layers as separate calls, there is quite a bit of functionality
available for stacking of imagery, particualrly for plotting.
We do use
Roger,
I asked a similar question last year
(http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2007-September/002349.html).
Landon Blake and I (and others) came to the conclusion that the answer was to create a
map surround library suitable for wrapping as a plug-in to various generic
Brent,
We basically came to the same conclusions, although I think there is
also the potential for combining seamless overlay with the surround
method as well. I still keep looking inside of MapServer too, but just
can't seem to come up with a flexible method of building anything.
The surround
Hi Bob and Brent,
That was a great thread to dig into, thanks for sending me the link. I'm
guessing that Mapserver wasn't originally developed with the intent of
acting as an engine for cartographic quality, paper, map production. The
fact that it's capable of generating images of such high
Roger André wrote:
creation. The problem is that GMT does it all. Without going into
all of what GMT can do, here are a few of the things that it does which
I haven't been able to find an easy way to implement with Mapserver.
3) Creation of color bars (legend) to show the values in a
Brent,
Hmm, heavy handed way of going at it, but it seems like it could work,
might be a bit laborious to set up initially.
Sounds good enough to experiment with anyway.
BTW, does anyone know of a way to label a line and justify the label to
the edge of the map (other than planting things
