I would think that any work on this should be done as an addition to an existing layout manager. I believe it was the Inkscape forums where I saw a thread discussing the possible extension of an existing layout manager for their application. Perhaps this group can do the same? I would think a good first start would be to put together a summary of existing free/open source layout managers.<br>
<br>Also, from a large plot perspective something like RTL needs to be supported as a plotting language. This allows really really big plots to be streamed to a printer/plotter rather than requiring the entire file to fit into the printer/plotters memory (a la postscript). With a streaming format the plotter can print/plot as it is received.<br>
<br>Craig<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:26 PM, George Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:georger.silva@gmail.com">georger.silva@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>George R. C. Silva<br><br>Desenvolvimento em GIS<br><a href="http://blog.geoprocessamento.net" target="_blank">http://blog.geoprocessamento.net</a><br>
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