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<DIV>All,</DIV>
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<DIV>I've been working on improving some legends and ran into a few problems. I managed to get through them, but figured I would send this little note to the list about a couple of items.</DIV>
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<LI>It's not obvious from the LEGEND docs what the LABEL tag is supposed to do inside of the LEGEND tags. Suggested remedy, add a little more to the LEGEND doc's, or call the action something else besides LABEL, maybe LABELS or even plain old FONT would have worked better as a description while inside of the LEGEND tags. Can anyone go in there and edit things?</LI>
<LI>Is there a way to add in a logo to a LEGEND? I thought about a few ways of tricking MapServer into doing it, but I would also like to have some control over where the logo ended up being positioned in the Legend, our use case would be to place a symbol, at a fairly large size in the Legend output, preferably to the right of the regular legend output. I think I could go another route with some of this and build the Logo image with a separate call to MapServer, but the LEGEND container is an obvious way to group a logo with a set of legend chip entries, which the next question will relates to.</LI>
<LI>I know this is going to sound a bit left of field at first, but hang in here with me a for a couple of minutes, anyone know of a way to pass an Image Map back for a raster legend? Ideally I would like to be able to link to the legend chip and/or text for some Metadata URL's, having the same available for the logo would also be desirable for the same reason.</LI></UL>
<DIV>Some of the above might be out there with respect to the operation of MapServer already in one form or another, but the grouping of these things inside of the LEGEND object has many benefits, one of them being, that a layer owner/publisher has all the cartogrphy config in one location vs building an additional logo image to place next to the Legend image. The ImageMap for Legends is sort of meant as a halfway point between HTML & Raster. Also, I think I may be describing a more generalized approach to the building of the Raster Legend, in that most, if not all, LAYER drawing capabilities (including imagemap generation) be implemented within the LEGEND object as well. What if one could include a Thumbnail of a map in the legend, all sorts of things I could do with something like that for example :c)</DIV>
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<DIV>I'm speaking to the use of MapServer CGI above, with a separate non-embedded image, so I shouldn't offend too many folks with my wild ideas, but I should also state that these ideas would also help with our GeoMoose framework client project considerably. The GeoMoose interface uses a separate Legend call for each Layer or group of layers, and the logo idea was squarely aimed at providing a feedback of informational link to a Publishing authority for a layer or group of layers in the interface.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks</DIV>
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<DIV>bobb</DIV>
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<DIV>P.S. BTW, I do have some funds available to do this work if it's deemed acceptable to try, even in a provisional way to begin with.</DIV>
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