I'm +1 on the idea. Could be a nice SOC project since the basics are pretty
easy, so we can ensure success, but there's lots of cool directions to go,
like with charts. We've got some UI designs for Styler to take advantage of
such a thing, see: http://projects.opengeo.org/styler/wiki/ImageManager
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> another idea that could be nice for SOC could
> be a symbol server that can works standalone,
> or be used as a remote source of symbols.
>
> What I envisage is something using the GT2
> dynamic symbolizer factories, and that exposes
> them using a REST api that clients can
> use to:
> - inspect what symbols are available and what
> parameter each symbol has
> - push more symbols into the server (or
> delete them)
>
> This could be used by clients like GE that
> need to grab symbology from a web accessible
> source, and from styler like projects that
> need to present users with a choice of available
> symbols.
>
> Symbol wise, the server could provide:
> - plain raster symbols (png/jpeg)
> - scalable ones (svg) and allow the user to ask for a rasterized
> version at a specific size
> - marker related symbols as well, with
> parameters about size, fill and outline
> color (wihtout going into full SLD power
> thought, the params would explode in that case)
>
> And interesting extra spin would be to have this thing
> serve charts as well, like DeeGree is doing
> (http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/paper/view/332/168).
> Ok, we can do that already using Google charts api, but that's
> not very good from a perf pov, plus we could have the
> chart server read from our data directly (think of a query
> to a geometryless table for example).
>
> Opinions?
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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