Bob, I use the MapFish print engine for this. It's a nice templating language, PDF generation, etc.
Michael Smith Remote Sensing/GIS Center US Army Corps of Engineers > On Feb 8, 2017, at 5:52 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > It’s for compositing for printing. I want to set up some page templates for > a map book where any of the pages can be run off when an update occurs in a > particular location in the global map, vs printing the whole book. > > On a more detailed level, this is starting to get into a print tool, which > I’ve been pondering building for online use. The idea would be to mix and > match (stack) different print features on a canvas for eventual printing. My > need right now is for something as an API, but I can see this easily morphing > into a user interface. > > I actually already do some of those other items like ,collars and grids with > MapServer, they just use different mapfiles for each. Just trying to figure > out the best way to pull it all together. I think I’ll just hardcode > something together right now, and see where I can insert URLS and resource > links into the hardcoded pipeline after the fact. I have a Fire response map > that I’m working on right now as a test. It’s big too, 42”x60”, all in one > shot right out of MapServer. Works really nicely for the basemap already. > > There are a bunch of detail reference maps needed though, which is what I’m > working on now. > > I was pondering things from the point of view that these detail maps are > really just another type of Legend (or could be thought of that way) > > bobb > > >> On Feb 8, 2017, at 4:39 PM, Stephen Woodbridge <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On 2/8/2017 5:22 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> Anyone know of a way (trick) to embed a map into a regular map query in >>> Mapserver? Something like embedding a legend, but I actaully want to >>> embed another higher resolution detail map. Ideally I would be able to >>> use any of the layers in the main map for the detail as well. >>> >>> Hmm, I wonder if I can make what I want in a LEGEND block?? If an image >>> in a LEGEND block could be another call to mapserver in place of a >>> static image . . . Just a wishlist thing right now. I can stack >>> things in another piece of software currently. >> >> Bob, >> >> This sounds like something you might find in a composition tool. There might >> be a way to make (trick) mapserver do this, like allowing a image symbol to >> be create using a url rather than a file, then placing that on the map, but >> mapserver has a great focus on high performance map image rendering. What is >> your use case for this? >> >> I think it might be better to think about this problem in terms of creating >> a composition tool oriented toward maps that would allow collars, legends, >> detailed maps, annotations, grids, etc and be able to output PDFs or images, >> or formats compatible with document systems or whatever. >> >> -Steve W >> >> --- >> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >> https://www.avast.com/antivirus >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mapserver-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > > > > "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." > - Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943 > > > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
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