Comparison of Styled Layer Descriptor Specification and MapFile Format in Light of Cartographic Visualization
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The idea of the paper is to compare facilities of two widely used open formats that describe the way of cartographic visualization of spatial objects in maps. Styled Layer Descriptor is a specification developed by Open Geospatial Consortium. Its purpose is just to describe the way of cartographic visualization and it is often used in connection with Web Map Service specification. On the other hand, MapFile is configuration format of UMN MapServer, which is probably the most used open-source map server. The paper describes in detail facilities of visualizing basic cartographic vector symbols: point, line, and area symbols. A special attention is paid to visual variables of symbols: shape, size (width), color, orientation, pattern, and transparency. |
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