On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Chris Holmes <chol...@opengeo.org> wrote:
>
> This approach makes a lot of sense. Indeed we already have a mode=download
> I think for KML, but might make sense to just return KMZ with the embedded
> icons for that. Or to just not offer it and document that KMZ is the
> download format. In GeoNode we already do have the distinction, between
> 'view in google earth' and 'download kml'.
>
>
>> I've spent a little time trying out some ideas outside of GeoServer:
>> https://github.com/dwins/icon-service (I'l see if I can stand up a demo
>> later.) The approach that I've been taking is to define the icon service
>> as operating on styles alone (not addressing individual rules), and the
>> client making the request includes feature attributes as needed. So an
>> icon url might look like:
>>
>> http://localhost:9090/st/poi_dynamic?cat=1
>>
>> If the style references a property named 'cat.' Then I just create a
>> feature with a point geometry at (0,0) and the attributes from the query
>> string, remove Symbolizers other than PointSymbolizer from the style, and
>> render it in a bbox of [-1:1,-1:1].
>>
>
I see, makes sense. Of course, you're not going to bring a Scala dependency
into GeoServer core, are you?
Cheers
Andrea
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