Hi all, I like the direction development is going with v5. My tuppence of wishes would be extension of ways to select data - either buffers, user drawn polygons, or even simple user uploaded polygon shapefiles. Then I guess further use of other OL functionality - editing etc.
Appreciate this maybe beyond what PMapper's objectives are trying to deliver, but it is such a useful framework to build upon. Cheers Chris On 17 Mar 2012 10:21, "Armin Burger" <armin.bur...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16/03/2012 12:50, G. Allegri wrote: > > Hi, > > the idea to use Openlayers could give a new boost to Pmapper, which I > find > > one of the best "technical oriented" WebGIS out there. > > This could give a chance to develop more on it. It's a long time I'm > > thinking to an admin API, for an example, but was discouraged to invest > on > > it by the lack of some foundamental features for nowday's WebGIS > platforms, > > with OL being the biggest. > > well, there are frameworks like GeoExt that might already have offered > this type of functionality. Did you ever try them? > > > Armin, do you have any plans about it? Will you put it out when things > are > > done, or will you share the code while working on it? > > So far quite some parts are still a bit under construction with frequent > and possibly still deeper changes. It was not always easy to understand > the sometimes strange logic of OL, and the OL mailing list was of no > help for very specific questions (I practically never got any reply). So > I was sometimes close to abandon the idea of using OL. Now I found most > ways for workarounds, and the map navigation and interaction tools are > mainly working. > > I'm currently in the final stage of rewriting the old and badly > structured query code of p.mapper, this might be even possible to port > it back to the p.mapper 4 (the new one will be version 5). The query > stuff is again a bit of a mess, this time from the side of MapServer. > But the new query classes should allow more easily to write you own > functionality for the query result display if needed since this is now > decoupled from actually getting the query result. > > A missing part is also the printing where I will mainly have to > investigate how to print tiled layers that are not available via > Mapserver (like OSM layers, Google layers will anyway not be allowed to > be included in printings). > > Just to give an idea how the composition of layers from mapserver and OL > works: You can define as now to have all MS layers (or groups) being > rendered on a single map image, with or without tiling. Or you can split > groups of layers into a few blocks, each block is an OL layer (I call > the OL layers 'olThemes' to avoid too much of naming confusion). The > combination which layers are rendered together or separately can be done > in any type of combination. Using tiled layers for the time being will > require to use the Google spherical mercator projection for the map. I > cerated 2 new types of new OL layers, one tiled and the other non-tiled. > Both are based on MapScript and will only work inside a user PHP session. > > It will be very likely that the first release version of p.mapper 5 will > have some very specific functionalities not yet included, and most > likely also only a few plugins will work already then. > > When the code is a bit more stable I will put it on the SVN, depending > also if anyone is interested in contributing some developments. I might > put a preliminary beta version out in the next week or so, so that > people can have a look at it on their own installation. > > A first draft version (already 2 weeks old) is available at > http://www.pmapper.net/demo/pmapper-5-dev/ > http://www.pmapper.net/demo/pmapper-5-dev/?config=singletile > > some new functions beyond OL integrations already implemented are: > - hierarchical level above categories (called 'domains') > - more flexible mutual disabling of layers > > Do not use IE for it since it will complain about some "console.log()" > calls. > > Hope that helps for now > > Armin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for you precious work, > > Giovanni > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > 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 > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
