There was a good discussion on the osgeo list about setting up a wiki with
SLD examples.
Personally I would love to see a quick catalog with the following items:
- visual (ie show what the result looks like)
- snippet (highlight the xml fragment that makes the example special)
- link (to the complete sld file)
It would be important to have the table of contents contain a thumbnail of
each style.
I think I would find it easier to break up the subject by domain (ie what
you are trying to renderer) rather than by simple/intermeditate/advanced).
If you like you can organize each section along the lines of complexity; but
the top level breakdown should be by domain.
You will often find that SLD examples are cumulative; the advanced examples
are actually a small refinement of a previous simple example - as such you
may find the subject matter naturally is organized into a progression from
simple to advanced material.
Finally it would be very nice to have a final chapter covering extensions to
SLD:
- GeoServer has some very handy extensions that would be nice to document
(label handling and dynamic symbols for example)
- Symbology Encoding 1.1 is out and contains some additional concepts such
as the use of ground units when supplying a buffer
It would also be handy in the catalog approach to document which
applications the example works with (or which rendering engines if you are
short on space).
Jody
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Mike Pumphrey <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am writing new documentation for using SLD in GeoServer, and I'm
> looking to create an SLD "cook book" where various styles will be placed
> for easy reference. I am looking for suggestions of the types of styles
> that would be good to have in this list. I was thinking of dividing the
> list into "simple", "intermediate", and "advanced", although I recognize
> that that's a bit arbitrary, and perhaps might be better if I used other
> delimiters such as "point", "line", "polygon", "raster". Anyway, if you
> have any suggestions, either on specific styles to highlight (you don't
> need to post SLD code here if you don't want, just ideas) or in the
> structure of this cook book, please let me know. (Think: What would
> _you_ have liked to have seen when you were learning about SLD?)
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Pumphrey
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
>
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