A to Z London 1930's Map Online [Slippy Map]

A to Z London 1930's Map Online [Slippy Map]


A to Z have put the original 'A to Z' 1930's London Map online using Openlayers and Mapserver

"Discover the streets of a bygone age with a nostalgic look back in time at this early edition of the famous London A-Z."

View an extract taken from the 1930's London map

"The original printing of this paperback street atlas before the Second World War was in black only; however, this facsimile reproduction has been printed in colours which simulate the current condition after its ageing over many years."

"Geographers' Map Company was founded in 1936 by Phyllis Pearsall MBE (1906-1996) who, encouraged by her father Alexander Gross, took on the ambitious task of publishing up-to-date street mapping of London. This Historical Edition is a facsimile reproduction of one of her first publications featuring the now renowned A to Z logo on the front cover."

London Street Atlas - Historical Edition is available in paper form
http://www.a-zmaps.co.uk/?nid=60&iid=3554

Mapserver 5.0.0 Released

Mapserver 5.0.0 Released

"Beyond browsing GIS data, MapServer allows you create "geographic image maps", that is, maps that can direct users to content"


Example Screenshot of Mapserver

New features in Mapserver Version 5.0.0:
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- MS RFC 19: Added Style and Label attribute binding

- MS RFC 21: Raster Colour Correction via colour lookup table

- MS RFC 27: Added label priority

- MS RFC 29: Added dynamic charting (pie and bar charts)

- MS RFC 31: New mechanism to load/set objects via URL using mapfile syntax

- MS RFC 32: Added support for map rendering using the AGG library for
better output quality


Long time issues resolved:
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- MS RFC 17: Use dynamic allocation for symbols, layers, classes and styles
(got rid of the static limit on the number of instances of each in a map)

- MS RFC 24: Improved memory management and garbage collection for MapScript

- MS RFC 26: Terminology cleanup (layer transparency renamed to opacity,
scale becomes scaledenom, symbol style becomes symbol pattern)

- MS RFC 28: Enhanced the debug/logging mechanism to facilitate
troubleshooting and tuning applications. Added support for multiple
debug levels and more control on output location.

Change log
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/browser/tags/rel-5-0-0/
mapserver/HISTORY.TXT

source: Slashgeo