[Geoserver-devel] Anti-aliasing support

I am wondering if it was suitable to support anti-aliasing in images sent by WMS.

Without anti-aliasing, the rendering is faster and above all, each pixel is mapped to an information, but the first goal of WMS is to display maps, not to work on it (in spite of GetFeatureInfo request).
With anti-aliasing, the information is less precise but the result is very more eye-catching.

What are you thinking about it. For testing, I can add this functionnality if you agree.

Regards

Charles

I haven't thought about anti aliasing at all. I think it would be a fine
variable to allow user configuration of. If you want to code it up I
would love to test it out, and roll it in. I like the idea of faster
requests in the WMS, but it's nicer to just give control of it to the
user. If you put it in WMS and WMSDTO and in XMLConfigReader I can do the
rest of the work to get it in struts if you'd like. Just model it after
gmlPrefixing in WFS, as WMS does not yet have any specific config options,
but this should definitely be a WMS specific one. Or if you want to get
into struts we actually have good documentation on how to add a
configuration option, see
http://geoserver.sourceforge.net/documentation/developer/howToConfig.html

Chris

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Charles Kolbowicz wrote:

I am wondering if it was suitable to support anti-aliasing in images
sent by WMS.

Without anti-aliasing, the rendering is faster and above all, each pixel
is mapped to an information, but the first goal of WMS is to display
maps, not to work on it (in spite of GetFeatureInfo request).
With anti-aliasing, the information is less precise but the result is
very more eye-catching.

What are you thinking about it. For testing, I can add this
functionnality if you agree.

Regards

Charles

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