Hi all,
looking at the preview page these days I find there are several things that
could be improved:

   - Users often go overboard with names and titles, making the horizontal
   real estate insufficient
   - KML is not that popular any more, nor is GML for what is worth
   - Having direct access to all formats is probably not a big necessity
   - Not having a clear way to access tiled maps from GWC is a limitation

With that in mind, I was thinking of simplifying the normal view to just
hold the OL preview, but have the ability to expand a second row of
controls that would contain access to other formats, classified by type,
something like this:

[image: image.png]
The yellow triangle would be a button to expand the preview row and show
more controls, in particular, categorized drop downs, with access to all
map formats, to the GWC tiled previews, and to raw data format.
Raw data  could have WCS 2.0 links too, if the service is available, with
the full layer download.
Yes, that could fail due to service limits, but at the same time, I don't
know of a good way to find a bbox that would fit the limits and contain
actual pixels at the same time (other than sampling, that is, which would
be too expensive).

The dotted blocks above would be pluggable, so that new formats and
extensions could add their own little customized block (e.g., MapML could
have its own section for example... just thinking out loud).

Thoughts?

Cheers
Andrea

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