The same raster shape is used as part of WMS icon etc... The udig raster icon is dynamically generated using draw commands (and should be able to reflect the image colors). I was hoping to trade simplicity for relevance.
Andrea there is an osgeo list called graphics; that rounds up the various projects and tries to talk about icons. Thus far it is a very quiet list but you could ask there after a good raster icon. Does not geosilk provide something? Jody On 09/03/2010, at 9:58 PM, Andrea Aime wrote: > Hi, > OpenGeo asked me to look into getting a better GetLegendGraphics output > for generic raster. > In fact the current one is rather ugly: > http://demo.opengeo.org/geoserver/wms?REQUEST=GetLegendGraphic&VERSION=1.0.0&FORMAT=image/png&WIDTH=20&HEIGHT=20&LAYER=bluemarble > > A colored R.... R what? Ah, "R"aster. However it's quite pixellated > and does not really look professional. > > I've looked around to see what other software does... most of the > time (ArcExplorer, ArcGis, OpenJump) there is really no icon at > all. > > uDig as its own little icon. It's sure raster, but maybe a little > too simple? See udig.png attached (coming from a screenshot). > It's however better than the current R imho. > > Also tried to look into gvSig but could not make it work at all... > with my own JDK it works fine but does not open raster files > because it cannot initalize the custom gvSig GDAL extensions, > with their own most dialogs are solid gray, which is > a known issue on Ubuntu if you use any JRE 1.5. > Oh well, if anybody has it working and finds they are using > a nice icon, please report? > > Oh, there is also the icon that we're using in the GeoServer > GUI of course. We could consider using that one as well, > attached as raster.png > > The main issue I see with the above raster icons is that they don't scale, > whilst GetLegendGraphic users can decide how big the icon is... > See for example: > > http://demo.opengeo.org/geoserver/wms?REQUEST=GetLegendGraphic&VERSION=1.0.0&FORMAT=image/png&WIDTH=20&HEIGHT=20&LAYER=bluemarble > http://demo.opengeo.org/geoserver/wms?REQUEST=GetLegendGraphic&VERSION=1.0.0&FORMAT=image/png&WIDTH=40&HEIGHT=40&LAYER=bluemarble > > and compare with: > > http://demo.opengeo.org/geoserver/wms?REQUEST=GetLegendGraphic&VERSION=1.0.0&FORMAT=image/png&WIDTH=20&HEIGHT=20&LAYER=topp:states > http://demo.opengeo.org/geoserver/wms?REQUEST=GetLegendGraphic&VERSION=1.0.0&FORMAT=image/png&WIDTH=40&HEIGHT=40&LAYER=topp:states > > I guess a better approach would be to have a SVG icon that we can paint > at different scales (that would be a bit on the heavy site) or just > go plain java2d if the icon is actually simple (like uDig one, but > the one we use in GS is just a matter of writing a simple loop too) > > Thoughts? > > Cheers > Andrea > > > -- > Andrea Aime > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > Expert service straight from the developers. > <udig.png><raster.png>------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev_______________________________________________ > Geoserver-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
