Unifying The Rendering Interfaces

page to keep track of ideas and notes concerning "pluggable" renderers, and their interface with the main mapserver program

Desired Functionality

Line Layers

• simple
  • dashed
  • outlined?
• brushed
  • vector
  • pixmap
  • truetype?
• markers
  • vector
  • pixmap
  • truetype
  • ellipse

Point Layers

• vector
• pixmap
• truetype
• ellipse

Polygon and Circle Layers

• simple
  • outlined?
• hatched
• tiled
  • vector
  • ellipse
  • pixmap
  • truetype

Labelling

• simple
• follow
• compute size before rendering