Developer’s Corner: Cartographic Rendering Improvements in GeoServer
Dear reader, today we would like to share some recent improvements in GeoServer cartographich rendering, which will be useful for everybody, but great for those dealing with roads mapping. The first one is z-order control, in GeoServer 2.8 there are two new FeatureTypeStyle VendorOption allowing to control in which order the features get painted, inside a single layer, or even across layers. Here is an example from our user guide, where over and under passes, as well as rail bridges, are properly honored in the map rendering: [caption id="attachment_2397" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Z-Order Control at work with OSM Data[/caption] This is made possible...
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