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
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