Hi Andrea, Sure - I'll put up some examples for the other types on the wiki. It is interesting since the view I had doesn't help a situation where there are say 100 shapefiles loaded from the filesystem, which still shows up as a 100 shapefiles in the 'Service' view.
Mifan On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:13 AM, andrea antonello < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mifan, > can you make more examples of your wortkflow for different data types? > You tend to make examples just with remote services and I want to make > sure all the different types have a proper way to be handled. > > What would happen for example with: > - shapefiles > - folder of shapefiles > - tiff > - asc > - folder with tiff and asc > - folder with tiff and shapefiles > - postgis connection > - no4j connection (or H2 or sqlite) > -... any other thought? > > I can be around for IRC for about 1/2 an hour at the same time as last > time. > > Ciao, > Andrea > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Mifan Careem <[email protected]> wrote: > > HI All, > > Based on the last IRC breakout on the Catalog View, I've come up with a > 2nd > > draft of a possible view: > > > http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/GSoC+2011+-+Catalog+View+Reports#GSoC2011-CatalogViewReports-catalogscenario1 > > Scenario 1 here is trying to keep it as simple as possible, before moving > to > > the multi-select (scenario 2) and configurable start components (scenario > > 3). I'd love to hear your thought on this and verify whether the thinking > > here is right. The use case for Scenario 1 is as follows: > > > > The catalog lists the Service Types (File, Database, Web Services, Other, > > Decorator). The other components (Service, DataType and Layers) are blank > > User selects the Web Services Service Type > > The Services component is then filled with the Services that fall under > the > > selected Services Type (FGDC WMS, ESRI WMS, Geoserver WFS etc.) > > The user selects the MassGIS WFS. This populates the DataType component > with > > the FeatureTypes. > > The user select the FeatureType. This loads the Layers relevant to the > > feature type. Usually this might be a 1:1 mapping > > > > Should we have another IRC to discuss this further? > > Cheers > > Mifan > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi Mifan: > >> Sorry for joining the conversation late :-) I am very enthusiastic about > >> your work - and also your questions as they will help motivate me to > iron on > >> the wrinkles in the catalog api. > >> > >> Services -> Layer -> Type > >> This is from Jody'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) > >> > >> Small clarification; I was not sure what to really do for the last > column > >> as i had a number of "things" I wanted to communicate: > >> - type (as you indicated); the annoying part is that type forms a "tree" > >> (with the vast majority of types simply extending feature) > >> - style (I have a change proposal I need to sort out on this topic; but > >> basically styles are organised by feature type - as feature type > indicates > >> what geometry and attributes are available to be drawn) > >> - friends (if the data was available via another service we consider > both > >> layers to be "friends"). This is actually an "association" but friends > makes > >> udig a more user-friendly experience :P > >> _______________________________________________ > >> User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > >> http://udig.refractions.net > >> http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > > http://udig.refractions.net > > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > http://udig.refractions.net > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel >
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