[mapserver-dev] MS RFC 61: Enhance MapServer Feature Style Support

[Tamas Szekeres]

Steve,

I didn't want to promote the OGR style as opposed to SLD or other style
representations, on the contrary I would be happy have them implemented all.
But at the moment - for practical reasons - implementing the OGR styles
would be more straightforward. From the user's perspective having a 'feature
style ready' data source (like mapinfo tab) in hand, can easily be converted
to any other data sources supported by OGR using a single commandline tool.
It would then be reasonable to establish support for rendering those feature
styles in mapserver by using the "native" drivers as well, not only with OGR
like now.
For this reason I'd encourage to enhance such default style handling
(established with this addition) to support more kind of the style
representations if someone will have any motivation to implement a parser to
those styles. Till that time, having a single implementation in place is
much better than denying such support at all.


Best regards,


Tamas



2010/9/15 Lime, Steve D (DNR) <Steve.Lime at state.mn.us>

>  Folks are kinda quiet… Recovering from the conference no doubt. This
> seems a reasonable idea. Only question I have is promoting the use of OGR
> styling as opposed to SLD.
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> Steve
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> *From:* mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Tamas Szekeres
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 11, 2010 11:17 AM
> *To:* mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* [mapserver-dev] MS RFC 61: Enhance MapServer Feature Style
> Support
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> Hi Devs,
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> I would require an implementation to extend the current STYLEITEM option to
> be used with further drivers in addition to OGR driver. I recall we have
> already been discussed this topic with the conclusion that this kind of
> implementation would require quite a big effort, but I expect the initial
> approach (based on the OGR style) could be implemented fairly easily. For
> this reason I've created MS RFC 61 describing the concept to be done, though
> the proposed changes haven't yet been implemented by me. I'd anyway be in
> favour of adding such solution (or a reasonable variant) to be available in
> the next release version (ie. MS 6.0)
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> The RFC can be found at:
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> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/browser/trunk/docs/en/development/rfc/ms-rfc-61.txt
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> Best regards,
>
> Tamas
>
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