[Geomoose-users] [GeoMOOSE] Tree-view and mapbook organization

[Bob Basques]

All,
 
If I understand the question correctly, from this an another post,
there is a valid reason for this type of request.  I only know this
because I've run into these display problems in the past.  
 
The near term resolution to the problem, was to do as described in
another post, to have one layer for display at the top vs another for
display at the bottom of the stack.  This could be to separate the
labels from the polygons, the polygon fills from the outlines, or any
such combination for display purposes.  The idea being to group these
display aspects for toggling with one single toggle in the interface.
 
While these separate layers are painful to manage by the typical user,
it's really the only method available at this point to handle this type
of situation.  Now, the future inclusion of a pre-mashed set of layers
into a single image will alleviate some of this, it also will preclude
(somewhat) the option of the user turning layers on/off in the interface
without first retrieving a new image from the server.  The whole point
of the interface from day one, was to hand over control of the viewable
aspects to the user(s) and let them control things.  In my mind, the
separation of things more fully, separate labels and objects, for
example, can get the Job done, but it's not the complete solution for
all business needs either.
 
I know I didn't really answer the original question very well, and
opted for more of an explanation of why it is the way it is.  Hope this
helps with future questions though.
 
bobb
 
 

>>> "Fischer, Brian" <bfischer at houstonengineeringinc.com> wrote:
In version 1.5 we are going to add the functionality to be able to
group layers into the same image and still be able to toggle the layers
on and off.  The purpose of this is to take advantage of MapServer's
label collision functionality.
 
Brian Fischer
Houston Engineering, Inc.
Maple Grove, MN
(763) 493-4522
 

From: geomoose-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:geomoose-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of
Jim Klassen
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 1:33 PM
To: Scott Oatley; geomoose-users
Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] [GeoMOOSE] Tree-view and mapbook
organization

This is exactly the reason St. Paul has separate "Visible Layers" and
"Catalog" tabs. The catalog is organized and the Visible layers is used
to manipulate the layers including Z-order. Separate and linked
label-map layers is not currently supported... Keep in mind that this
would cause GeoMOOSE to hit mapserver twice (for both the label and map
requests) and that may have a performance impact. 
https://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/gis/gismo_public/html/ 

>>> On 12/9/2007 at 2:20 PM, "Scott Oatley" <swoatley at gmail.com>
wrote:
I think another ?useful? feature might be independence of the tree-view
hierarchy from the mapbook hierarchy. In other words, categorizing
layers in the tree-view in a way that makes sense to the user, may not
match the order in which the layers should be displayed. 

-Scott
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