Hi All, I am in the process of attempting to figure out the best possible combinations to use for Catalog View Browse project. As you might be aware of, the idea is to use best practices from Eclipse and the Java Browsing Perspective to provide a better view experience to the user [1].
The current catalog view shows all the layers loaded which can be quite hard to browse when the number of layers increase. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the following grouping ideas for a better catalog view. This is available on wiki with screens at [2] Version 1: Projects -> Data Sources/Type/Service -> Layers Projects would contain the list of projects loaded in the workspace Data Sources would contain the different data sources (ArcSDE, Files, Mapserver) under the project Layers would list the layers under the project's particular Data Source (An image is available in [2] named Version 1, under the June 10 Weekly Report) Version 2: Projects -> Data Sources/Type/Service -> Categories -> Layers Projects would contain the list of projects loaded in the workspace Data Sources would contain the different data sources (ArcSDE, Files, Mapserver) under the project Category would be a logical grouping of the layers, maybe based on an ontology or some standards Layers would list the layers under the project's particular Data Source and categorization (An image is available in [2] named Version 2, under the June 10 Weekly Report) Version 3: Services -> Layer -> Type This is from Judy's original proposal. Services would be a list of services that are loaded Layers would be the layers Types would be the types of layers (An image is available in [2] named Version 3, under the June 10 Weekly Report) I'd assume that the combinations can be perspectives with individual views? I'd like to see what the community thinks of the above - please suggest any new groupings as well that I might have left out. [1] http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/GSoC+2011+-+Catalog+Browse+View [2] http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/GSoC+2011+-+Catalog+View+Reports Cheers Mifan Careem
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