M.S.Bachler wrote:
Hi!
Thanks for the reply about D&D.
I have been side-tracked for a few weeks on something else, but am now
coming back to look at this properly.
Some of the questions I am about to ask will probably be stupid, but
here goes.
I have a steep learning curve ahead.
I need to get my head into uDig, Geoserver and how it all works very
quickly and would be grateful for a boost.
Ultimately, I need to set up a database in MySQL, communicated to
through Geoserver and used by uDig to store GIS information some of
which will be dragged in from another application in the form of text
strings and image files.
If you are crunched for time go with PostGIS, it is way more
tested/stable with respect to GeoServer.
I have installed Geoserver successfully, and have been trying to
understand what format a database schema would take.
Is there a standard schema required for geoserver to understand the
data, or does it just pass it about and it is uDig that needs the data
in a certain format? Or is it converted somewhere along the way? Is that
where GML comes into play?
And documented :-)
It's quite late at night here in England, so I hope I am making sense!
I am trying to understand how to start approaching the D&D stuff I need
to do.
If I drop a string or image file onto a Map, I assume it would need to
create a new layer in the layer manager (and assuming I have programmed
where), ultimately store the data in the database and then render the
feature.
So I need to deal with Map, LayerManager, RenderManager, Catalogue,
Feature and probably more?
Ahhh! I feel sleepless nights coming on.
I really work best from examples.
Working directly with code and experimenting by tweeking until I
understand.
I tried to find example code to play with.
Did you check out the tutorial source code in svn?
I wrote a small plugin to add a menu item, just to try and learn more
about Eclipse.
But there did not seem to be much example code relevant to what I am
trying to do, or else I understand so little at the moment that I did
not recognise which examples would be useful to me.
Could anyone suggest any examples I should look at?
See above.
I know this email has lots of questions about different areas.
If anyone has the time to answer any of it that would be great.
I really need a leg up with all this, or I may get paralyzed by fear at
the seeming magnitude of it all.
Heck you are just looking at code, normally it is GIS data that breaks
people's will.
Jody
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