Hi Dennis Thanks very much for your reply. We'll have a closer look and will get back with any technical questions.
Best wishes Andrew On Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 8:32:00 PM UTC+1, Dennis Wuthrich wrote: > > 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 >> > -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
