Hi Jody, can we plan an IRC chat in the next days? I feel I am laging behind on some uDig development parts, while on the other hand I am doing quite some advanced user work and have some thoughts to share. One example is the grouping of layers, which can get really helpful... I also think someone mentioned it earlier. And there is also the locationtech to chat about, and this and that.... and and :)
Cheers, Andrea On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am grabbing a couple of RFC from the list around the idea of storing > styles (SLD or SE) and symbology (icons.zip, icons.ttf etc…). > > The existing RFCs were written with a catalog handle for each kind of > content: StyleResource, SymbologyResource and so on. The idea is that we > would list styles in our catalog in a similar fashion to how an OGC catalog > works; and thus be able to query for a list of "predefined" styles for a > given dataset. > > I also really want to have "predefined' maps, in the same fashion as we have > page templates. One of our most common requests is how an application can > include an example Map for people to start from. Listing it in the file > > new > map wizard would be a good answer. > > In double checking these designs against the OGC catalog spec; I am > stumbling (perhaps slowly) onto an idea. > > OGC Catalog has the concept of the catalog storing small files *in* the > catalog. I think I could mirror this design choice and give us a catalog > entry that works for any of these file types; as long as the metadata story > is okay we should be able to short list these based on their schema and gets > good list of "predefined" styles. > > As for correct metadata - I am going to review the use: > - "schema" - several good ResourceType URIs are available in Table 69 of the > Catalog Spec (for things like our WMSService GetCapabilities) > - "mimeType" - this is the one that will be helpful > > -- > Jody Garnett > > > _______________________________________________ > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > http://udig.refractions.net > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel > _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel
