Re: [Geoserver-users] Pre-generalized datastore

2011-10-26 Thread christian . mueller
Interesting question. The plugin switches between generalizations if it gets a special hint from the rendering component. The value of the hint is the pixel size in world coordinates. AFAIK, the getFeatureInfo will not pass this hint to the pregen feture store (does not make sense). Without

Re: [Geoserver-users] Pre-generalized datastore

2011-10-25 Thread christian . mueller
Hi, I am the developer. The distance unit is taken from the coordinate system. Decimal degrees for wgs84. What is your backend store, I hope you are not working with shape files. Here is a postgis tutorial, until now I had not the time to write an official one. This tutorial can be adapted to

Re: [Geoserver-users] Pre-generalized datastore

2011-10-25 Thread Matthias Müller
Hi Christian, thanks for the hint and appreciation for your work. I am planning to use this module on a PostGIS Datastore - if you have a documentation I'd really like to read it. Right now I am diving into the subtleties of feature generalization. Decimal degrees are a bit tricky as the real