Hello everyone,<br><br>I would like to try to get the ball rolling, so I
thought to start simple. I'm not familiar with Mapnik also, so please
bear with me.<br><br>What are the components of a map document (this are
just informal ideas, give your opinion about them :P)<br>
<br>"Map Metadata"<br>Author<br>Date/time<br>Subject<br>Description<br><br>Size
(width x height)<br>Graphics (north arrow, title, other pictures, etc)<br>Ordered
set of "views" (I'm calling a view what would be a map inset, a map
inside another map)<br>
<br>Each "view" should have:<br><br> Size of map-inset<br>
Extent<br> Scale<br> Projection (datasets have projections,
but they can be represented in a different projection)<br> Ordered
set of Layers<br>
[Coordinate grid] (each of these should be graphic? should these
be tied up to each "view" or they are independent map graphics?)<br>
[Scale Bar]<br> [Scale Text]<br> [Legend]<br> other
elements I'm missing?<br>
<br>Since XML was mentioned by Tyler, I tried a top-bottom approach.<br clear="all"><br>Any ideas about these?<br><br>Thank you for your
patiente :P<br><br>George<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>George R. C. Silva<br><br>Desenvolvimento em GIS<br><a href="http://blog.geoprocessamento.net">http://blog.geoprocessamento.net</a><br>