Just to keep the things consistent in the future, how about adding a new keyword to the LAYER in order to select the desired style format, like:<br><br>LAYER<br> STYLEITEM "OGR_STYLE"<br> STYLEFORMAT OGR<br>
...<br>END<br><br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Tamas<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/15 Lime, Steve D (DNR) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Steve.Lime@state.mn.us">Steve.Lime@state.mn.us</a>></span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Agreed… I’ll defer to the OGRites out there on the
implementation details but It seems straight forward enough.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Steve</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Tamas Szekeres
[mailto:<a href="mailto:szekerest@gmail.com" target="_blank">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="mailto:mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [mapserver-dev] MS RFC 61: Enhance MapServer Feature Style
Support</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Steve</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="mailto:mapserver-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">mapserver-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:mapserver-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">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="mailto:mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mapserver-dev] MS RFC 61: Enhance MapServer Feature Style
Support</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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" target="_blank">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</p>
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