<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;">Hi Guys,</div><br><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;">Brent : thank you for the links, I can't comment much right now.</div><br><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;">Eli : yes I do have GIS background, I have known mapserver for a few years and trying it on and off. Lately I have found ms4w, geomoose and postgis stacks that really suites me. So I'm focusing on that.</div><br><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;">What I do is I just change a geomoose demo for ms4w to my needs. To answer your question about zoomto function yes it is working, I guess I should left groups behind.</div><br><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;">About the documentation, well you have answered many of my question and suggesting many links too, I guess I should start reading.</div><br><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;">An offline version -- in PDF maybe -- would be great, and it is a compilation of all that had documented everywhere.</div><br><br><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;">Regards,</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;">Zery</div><div>Powered by Telkomsel BlackBerry®</div><hr/><div><b>From: </b> Eli Adam <eadam@co.lincoln.or.us>
</div><div><b>Date: </b>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 07:56:31 -0700</div><div><b>To: </b>Zery<zery.sp@gmail.com></div><div><b>ReplyTo: </b> eadam@co.lincoln.or.us
</div><div><b>Cc: </b><geomoose-users@lists.osgeo.org></div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Geomoose-users] Jump To and Change Layer visibility</div><div><br/></div>Zery,<br/><br/>>> This documentation has some details specific to some previous Oregon<br/>>> customizations. Probably the best documentation for setup (and<br/>>> specifically zoom to) would be<br/>>> http://geomoose.org/docs/configuration.html#zoomto<br/>...<br/>> I'm sure I have read those link many times, from the example it has groups<br/>> of zoom to,<br/>><br/>> 'Communities':['static:rural',[<br/>> ['Arch Cape',[7317188,796289.34000000,7322479,805653]],<br/>> ['Bradwood',[7455671,934752.42000000,7459244,937982]],<br/>> ['Cannon Beach Junction',[7329878,845037,7334717,850082]]]]<br/>><br/>> when I try to use groups on my Jump To function it doesn't change the extent<br/>> and it only shows 'Communities' but Arch Cape and the others are not. How<br/>> did this groups really works?<br/><br/>At this point, I would advise against trying the groups of zoom to and<br/>following the main documentation which does not have groups. Once you<br/>have the simple zoom to working, then you could try making<br/>modifications and customizations to introduce groups (if the benefit<br/>is worth the work). The groups of zoom to are not a main part of<br/>GeoMoose but a user customization which involves several changes<br/>(which is why it is on the wiki rather than the main website). Does<br/>the simple zoom to to work when following the main documentation?<br/><br/>> I know this had been talk alot but here it goes, I hope someone out there<br/>> had the time to wrote a comprehensive step-by-step manual. Maybe with an<br/>> example project building webgis with geomoose. What to do first, where to go<br/>> next, which file had to be edited, what is the use of one function, how to<br/>> track an error, etc (too much huh :-) )<br/><br/>We try to provide a lot on the website,<br/>http://geomoose.org/docs/index.html but it could probably use more.<br/>The wiki is also open to all users to contribute anything that might<br/>help other users. Generally, the method to make your own webgis from<br/>GeoMoose and get familiar is to install the demo and have that<br/>working. Then modify that or a second copy of the demo to make it for<br/>your area with your data. The 2011 FOSS4G exercise includes a section<br/>to change map projection (including which files to edit), changing the<br/>extents, changing the jump to lists, adding to the available scales,<br/>adding layers, and even how to break and troubleshoot it. Ignoring<br/>all the documentation on the website and oversimplifying it, most<br/>changes happen in the settings.ini and mapbook.xml, .map files, and<br/>some of the identify .html files. There is developer documentation<br/>(for trunk which probably won't match the version you're using<br/>exactly) on functions here,<br/>http://geomoose.org/trunk/api/files/geomoose-js.html Most error<br/>tracking is done with firebug in Firefox. Generally errors are of two<br/>type (MapServer errors - usually an error in a .map file) and<br/>configuration errors (usually an error in mapbook.xml).<br/><br/>><br/>> My experience on using geomoose for the first time and as not a webgis<br/>> specialities, using the available documentation really had make me almost<br/>> going nowhere. I'm sorry for throwing so much demand.<br/><br/>It is hoped that GeoMoose is easily usable by people who are not<br/>webgis developers, although most have a GIS background. As you figure<br/>it out, can you make specific suggestions that would have helped you?<br/>That will help improve the documentation.<br/><br/>Bests, Eli<br/><br/>><br/>><br/>> Regards,<br/>> Zery<br/></body></html>