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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>At the conference, I talked with Frank about implementing an OGR output type from a WFS call (output any available, appropriate OGR Vector type). This would probably be useful to that effort as well. For those drivers that support it, you’d get stylized output.<BR>
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Michael Smith<BR>
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Remote Sensing/GIS Center<BR>
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On 9/15/10 5:59 PM, "Lime, Steve D (DNR)" <<a href="Steve.Lime@state.mn.us">Steve.Lime@state.mn.us</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT COLOR="#1F497D">Agreed… I’ll defer to the OGRites out there on the implementation details but It seems straight forward enough.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><B>From:</B> Tamas Szekeres [<a href="mailto:szekerest@gmail.com">mailto:szekerest@gmail.com</a>] <BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 15, 2010 1:35 PM<BR>
<B>To:</B> Lime, Steve D (DNR)<BR>
<B>Cc:</B> <a href="mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org">mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><BR>
<B>Subject:</B> Re: [mapserver-dev] MS RFC 61: Enhance MapServer Feature Style Support<BR>
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Steve,<BR>
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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. <BR>
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. <BR>
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Best regards,<BR>
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Tamas<BR>
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2010/9/15 Lime, Steve D (DNR) <<a href="Steve.Lime@state.mn.us">Steve.Lime@state.mn.us</a>><BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT COLOR="#1F497D"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">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.<BR>
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Steve<BR>
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</FONT></SPAN><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><B>From:</B> <a href="mapserver-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">mapserver-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a> [<a href="mailto:mapserver-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">mailto:mapserver-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Tamas Szekeres<BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 11, 2010 11:17 AM<BR>
<B>To:</B> <a href="mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org">mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><BR>
<B>Subject:</B> [mapserver-dev] MS RFC 61: Enhance MapServer Feature Style Support<BR>
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Hi Devs,<BR>
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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) <BR>
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The RFC can be found at:<BR>
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<a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/browser/trunk/docs/en/development/rfc/ms-rfc-61.txt">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/browser/trunk/docs/en/development/rfc/ms-rfc-61.txt</a><BR>
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Best regards,<BR>
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Tamas<BR>
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