Hi Andrew and Jamie,

Nice to hear that you found the Liverpool Arches Workshop useful.

You asked several specific questions about extending v4:

1) Is it possible to create plugins/widgets/add-ons that can be applied to 
the basemap in Arches? - for example, is there a menu within Arches or 
would this have to be created externally?

Answer: Yes, you can create or extend widgets in v4.  In particular, you 
could support the ability to drag pins from a menu onto a map and save the 
location of the pins back to the Arches database.  The specific technical 
steps are pretty straightforward.  To start, I suggest that you take a look 
at the existing map widget to see how the it manages data 
creation/saving/indexing.  This may be enough for you to see how to extend 
the widget.  At a minimum, you'll be in a position to ask specific 
technical questions.

Cheers,

Dennis


On Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 7:39:16 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Thanks very much to the GCI and John Moores University for organising the 
> Arches workshop last week in Liverpool, which I found very useful and 
> informative. 
>
> I briefly discussed the project that I'm currently working on at Maynooth 
> University, Ireland (REINVENT Project), and am hoping to undertake several 
> heritage-related Public Participation GIS exercises on a cross-border basis 
> at different spatial scales (landscape, area, individual 
> building/monument), possibly adopting Arches v4 as an existing, free and 
> open source heritage inventorying platform. However, to make this happen, 
> I've a number of initial queries on which I'd welcome some technical advice:
>
> 1) Is it possible to create plugins/widgets/add-ons that can be applied to 
> the basemap in Arches? - for example, is there a menu within Arches or 
> would this have to be created externally?
> 2) If so, can new toolbars be added and pins dragged and dropped from 
> these to the mapping interface?
> 3) Can the coordinates of the placed dropped pins be recorded and sent to 
> a database?
>
> Thanks very much for any advice you can provide.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Andrew McClelland and Jamie Raleigh
>

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