Hi Armin, Great job, and your explanation are very clear...
Serge On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Armin Burger <armin.bur...@gmx.net> wrote: > > > On 17/03/2012 12:38, G. Allegri wrote: > > Having an admin API would allow the configuration to be made through a > web > > based UI, or even a desktop app. This would simplify/streamline the > process > > of setting up and deploying maps and services for the end-user. > > > Hi Giovanni > > I find the management of the map file and all layers, with classes, > symbols, etc the most time consuming part. Setting up a GUI for that > would require quite a bit of work. Maybe you could give a look at the > QGIs plugin and just modify it to add some specific settings for > p.mapper (mainly the query fields and result headers under METADATA). > Another web-based map file creator was never really finished. > > I once set up an extension for ArcView 3 for this but I guess not many > people are still using it. > > The configuration style for p.mapper 5 will be more or less similar to > the previous version. Originally I wanted to move more config settings > from the XML to the js_config file since I'm now more used to writing > JSON like notations. But I mainly left it in the way it was. So the most > important settings to be changed typically for every application remain > in the XML. The category/group definition can be a bit more difficult > now in order to allow more complex set up, there were some compromises > necessary to put everything in XML. An example is e.g > > <category name="cat_admin" imgFormat="png32" olTheme="admin" buffer="0"> > <group>countries</group> > <group>cities10000eu</group> > <group olTheme="urbanthm" imgFormat="png8" name="urban"></group> > </category> > <category name="cat_infra" olTheme="infra" imgFormat="png8" > description="Infrastructure" type="PMTile"> > <group>roads</group> > <group>railroad</group> > </category> > > Settings that are very OL-oriented are in Javascript since it allows to > directly use OL-generic properties and options. But since this is > de-facto JSON, it should be possible to write this also somehow via a GUI. > > armin > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF email is sponsosred by: > Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure > _______________________________________________ > pmapper-users mailing list > pmapper-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pmapper-users > -- Serge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ pmapper-users mailing list pmapper-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pmapper-users
