Thanks for the replies Andrea and Jody.
Seeing your message got me thinking about it, I will try to find an
org/project that wants to fund work to support CartoCSS directly without
the SLD step.
I am sure some of your work for parsing CSS in Java directly may be
reusable so thanks for doing it! :)
Best,
-ariel
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Ariel Nunez <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Could this module support the CartoCSS syntax too?
>> https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/docs/manual/carto/
>>
>> In downstream projects (like GeoNode) it would be very helpful to be able
>> to be compatible with TileMill and CartoCSS.
>>
>> I am not sure which other projects use the CSS syntax used in the scala
>> extension but from memory I think it was GeoServer specific. If GeoServer
>> adopts CartoCSS, perhaps we can also convince/fund QGIS to support CartoCSS
>> and have an excellent alternative to SLD that works in many open source
>> packages.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>
> Nice one, but nothing I can do in spare time, I had a look, and CartoCSS
> syntax is incompatible
> with the way we handle SLD in a few ways, for example, a CSS style in
> carto describes a full
> map, N layers, whilst in GeoTools/GeoServer we have one SLD per layer, so
> a single CSS would
> have to be turned into N layers.
> There is also a number of properties that have no direct translactions,
> that we'd have to
> implement support for.
>
> Long story short: it can be done, but it would be a sizeable amount of
> work, larger
> than just doing a java version of the existing scala tooling (I'm not
> calling it a port because
> it's really a clean room implementation, I'm just keeping the same syntax).
> So.. funding welcomed :-)
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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