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, andrew.m...@nuim.ie 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 archesproject@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
