<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Bob,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I use the MapFish print engine for this. It's a nice templating language, PDF generation, etc. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br>Michael Smith<div>Remote Sensing/GIS Center</div><div>US Army Corps of Engineers</div></div><div><br>On Feb 8, 2017, at 5:52 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) <<a href="mailto:bob.basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us">bob.basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div class="">It’s for compositing for printing. I want to set up some page templates for a map book where any of the pages can be run off when an update occurs in a particular location in the global map, vs printing the whole book. </div>
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<div class="">On a more detailed level, this is starting to get into a print tool, which I’ve been pondering building for online use. The idea would be to mix and match (stack) different print features on a canvas for eventual printing. My need right now
is for something as an API, but I can see this easily morphing into a user interface.</div>
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<div class="">I actually already do some of those other items like ,collars and grids with MapServer, they just use different mapfiles for each. Just trying to figure out the best way to pull it all together. I think I’ll just hardcode something together
right now, and see where I can insert URLS and resource links into the hardcoded pipeline after the fact. I have a Fire response map that I’m working on right now as a test. It’s big too, 42”x60”, all in one shot right out of MapServer. Works really nicely
for the basemap already.</div>
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<div class="">There are a bunch of detail reference maps needed though, which is what I’m working on now. </div>
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<div class="">I was pondering things from the point of view that these detail maps are really just another type of Legend (or could be thought of that way)</div>
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<div class="">On Feb 8, 2017, at 4:39 PM, Stephen Woodbridge <<a href="mailto:woodbri@swoodbridge.com" class="">woodbri@swoodbridge.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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Anyone know of a way (trick) to embed a map into a regular map query in<br class="">
Mapserver? Something like embedding a legend, but I actaully want to<br class="">
embed another higher resolution detail map. Ideally I would be able to<br class="">
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Hmm, I wonder if I can make what I want in a LEGEND block?? If an image<br class="">
in a LEGEND block could be another call to mapserver in place of a<br class="">
static image . . . Just a wishlist thing right now. I can stack<br class="">
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This sounds like something you might find in a composition tool. There might be a way to make (trick) mapserver do this, like allowing a image symbol to be create using a url rather than a file, then placing that on the map, but mapserver has a great focus
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I think it might be better to think about this problem in terms of creating a composition tool oriented toward maps that would allow collars, legends, detailed maps, annotations, grids, etc and be able to output PDFs or images, or formats compatible with document
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