Re: [Mapbuilder-devel] BaseLayerList

2007-11-20 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 09:45:52AM +1100, Cameron Shorter wrote: > Steven, > Brainstorming on this topic, without having thought through all the details: > > * A baselayer by definition is not transparent. Right? No. You can have a transparent baselayer. I've used this in the past for creating o

Re: [Mapbuilder-devel] Progress on Mapbuilder Commercial Support

2007-11-20 Thread Cameron Shorter
Ok, Commercial Support in now advertised on the Mapbuilder web site, and referenced from the main contents. Thanks Steven for fixing permissions. I suggest others interested in providing support list themselves as well. http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAP/Commercial+Support Cameron Shorter wrot

Re: [Mapbuilder-devel] BaseLayerList

2007-11-20 Thread Cameron Shorter
Steven, Brainstorming on this topic, without having thought through all the details: * A baselayer by definition is not transparent. Right? In that case, in MapPaneOL, we should be able to render all the layers until we get to the baselayer, then we don't render the rest. (Will be slightly more

Re: [Mapbuilder-devel] BaseLayerList

2007-11-20 Thread Cameron Shorter
Andreas, you solution sounds good for the 1.5 release. For 1.5 release candidate we want minimal impact changes and it sounds like you have that covered. Andreas Hocevar wrote: > Hi, > > while all that was said by Steven should be considered for the trunk, > we have to find a reliable solution fo

Re: [Mapbuilder-devel] BaseLayerList

2007-11-20 Thread Andreas Hocevar
Hi again, I have a refined proposal which might be more satisfying to those of you that are in favour of a context-based solution: IIRC, all map and layer control widgets only look for "Layer" and "FeatureType" nodes in the context. So why don't we add "BaseLayer" nodes? Since OWSContext is more

[Mapbuilder-devel] added value of Mapbuilder over OpenLayers?

2007-11-20 Thread Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)
Hi list, I often wonder what currently is the added value of Mapbuilder over OpenLayers. As I see it, the gap between Mapbuilder and OpenLayers is quickly getting smaller and smaller. Soon OpenLayers will have WMC and OWS Context read/write support, previous and next extent controls, a distan

Re: [Mapbuilder-devel] BaseLayerList

2007-11-20 Thread Andreas Hocevar
Hi, while all that was said by Steven should be considered for the trunk, we have to find a reliable solution for the upcoming release. I just had a little chat with Steven, and we came up with the following proposal: - Base layers are strongly tied with resolutions. Resolutions are currently in

[Mapbuilder-devel] BaseLayerList

2007-11-20 Thread Steven M. Ottens
Hi all, While refactoring MapPaneOL to accomodate non-wms baselayers I discovered that I missed an important problem during the last discussion: If we have multiple baselayers we will need a solution similar to OL's list of baselayers: We need to parse all layers in the context doc and pick thos