[Qgis-developer] Displacement and SLD's

2013-05-07 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi List, We've contracted some work on GeoServer to try and get the SLD 1.1 "displacement" tag implemented, because we wanted to replicate the sort of results you can get in QGIS 1.8 here with the SVG filled green areas: http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/OS_Styles Those are QML files, but QGI

Re: [Qgis-developer] Displacement and SLD's

2013-05-08 Thread Giuseppe Sucameli
Hi Jonathan On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Jonathan Moules < jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk> wrote: > So my question is - how should that style be created with SLD's? Does QGIS > does it "properly"? no way in this moment, you could use Displacement tag with SVG images created ad-hoc, i.e.

Re: [Qgis-developer] Displacement and SLD's

2013-05-08 Thread Andrea Aime
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Giuseppe Sucameli wrote: > Andrea (who's implementing it), has noted that displacement alone can't do >> this, so has proposed a solution which would work, but would require an SLD >> file different from the one that QGIS 1.8 exported. His proposed solution >> is:

Re: [Qgis-developer] Displacement and SLD's

2013-05-08 Thread Giuseppe Sucameli
Hi Andrea, On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Andrea Aime wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Giuseppe Sucameli > wrote: > >> IMHO the displacement shouldn't be used in that way, as empty space >> between graphics, though the SE1.1 specs doesn't define a proper tag to do >> that... In fact t

Re: [Qgis-developer] Displacement and SLD's

2013-05-08 Thread Andrea Aime
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Giuseppe Sucameli wrote: > The way we handle extensions in GeoServer is to use a VendorOptions tag, > which can accomodate key/value pairs, > > We do the same in QGIS, and even the tag name it's the same! ;) > > >> in this case we could have something like: >> >>

Re: [Qgis-developer] Displacement and SLD's

2013-05-17 Thread Giuseppe Sucameli
Hi Andrea, sorry for the delay, I was abroad. On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Andrea Aime wrote: > we already have a "graphic-margin" option [...] > The name seems suitable for the fill as well, since in the end we're > talking about a graphic again. > Is it something QGis could use? > Otherwise