Hi Rui, did you have a look at this project ? https://github.com/BRGM/gml_application_schema_toolbox
I think you purchase the very same goal, a common approach seems a good idea ! Regards, Régis 2018-01-09 1:17 GMT+01:00 Rui Cavaco <[email protected]>: > Hello list. > > My name is Rui Cavaco, a supporter for OSGeo Portugal, and I see the need > for some future major changes in desktop GIS user interfaces in order to > facilitate complex features editing and querying. > > GML and INSPIRE are about complex features but so are fiber optic > networks. Complex features could be also very productive in simpler cases > like the management of city road signs and indications and other > municipality themes. > In order to properly support complex features I think we need to go > further than the simple and old three-part GUI comprising TOC, map and > attribute table. For example, attribute and form views must have "drill > down" capabilities. As for the TOC, subdivding layers, as the GMLAS > extension does, is not enough. Something like tree-view windows showing > object hierarchies and complex objects' internal contents must exist. This > is the exact same as schematics / synoptic views provided by specialized > "closed source" GIS tools provided for telecom and other utilities > management. Also I think the TOC should be very interactive and adaptive, > in order to make possible to expose the intrincacies of sublayers without > cluttering the whole layer tree with details uneeded for the current user > context. > > Me and others discussing this subject in OSGeo-PT chat, we are convinced > that without a largely available and intuitive editing support for complex > features INSPIRE will soon be (some say already is) dead, despite all the > the EU legal obligations. > > I suppose this is not a job for a single developer or a small team. I > imagine this might require some profound changes in QGIS. I don't think > that all these GUI changes mentioned could be "compacted" in just an > extension. > > Funding for this effort could be raised from INSPIRE-interested EU > organizations and member state government agencies. Also telecom companies > and other utilities managers can be interested. Dedicated "closed source" > GIS solutions for utilities are so absurdly expensive that this can open an > opportunity window for Open Source based solutions. > > I would like to join efforts with others sharing this vision in order to > help make it happen in future releases of QGIS. > > Rui Cavaco > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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