[geomoose-psc] Examples / Demos / Mulitple Mapbooks

[Brent Fraser]

Hi All,

I agree with Dan's proposal below.  Here's a structure to consider (in preparation for an RFC) to minimize the duplication of css etc:

Examples/desktop
mapbook.xml
mapbook-editing-geoserver.xml (superset of mapbook.xml)
mapbook-editing-tinyowx.xml (superset of mapbook.xml) 
mapbook-testing.xml (kitchen-sink of all possible map source types, might need its own app.js)

Examples/mobile
mapbook.xml

And I think we should tweak mapbook.xml and app.js to help new users adapt them in their journey in implementing GeoMoose.

Thanks!
Brent

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From: Dan Little <theduckylittle at gmail.com>
Sent: 5/22/21 9:36 AM
To: GeoMOOSE PSC <geomoose-psc at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: [geomoose-psc] Examples / Demos / Mulitple Mapbooks

I think we have hit a critical mass of needing *four* Desktop demos:

1. Editing - The two mapbooks below should be identical but for their target server. I am in favor of having these be a more limited workflow that shows how editing works in a practical way.
A. Based on GeoServer.
B. Based on PostGIS.
2. "The Desktop Demo" a la the status quo. The demo that people will "Copy Pasta" and turn into their deployed Website. Drop all the scary warning messages, ensure our comments are up to date, and that we remove the "Test code". We attempt to show a reasonable set of data types that people would find around in a "typical" County/City/Division website.
3. "The testing mapbook":
 - This can have the same layers configured in different ways (WFS, WMS)
 - "Test grids" - So we can test scaling and printing issues.
 - Can include stuff that is intentionally broken to test error handling.
 - I feel we can add stuff with a <exp:> prefix to denote some experimental stuff we could point users to but not feel the need to adopt and support long term.

Does this seem like a lot? Sure. Maybe? Why I don't think it is:
1. The editing workflow is pretty dedicated and I feel Brent has put some real time into making sure it is well tested. I feel like that will continue and we have historically had good stakeholders for that functionality.
2. The "Desktop demo" will be a subset of the functionality that starts in the testing mapbook.
3. I find it harder to comment, uncomment, and generally futz around with the "Desktop demo" all the time to make sure it looks okay AND that we have all of the needed functionality ready to test. While, yes, additional unit-testing will help it is very hard to beat a real-world end-to-end test.

I may take an initial swipe at this when I do the multiple mapbooks support but drafting an official RFC may be prudent here.

Thanks for reading!
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