[Geomoose-users] multiple layer selection

Fri Mar 14 12:42:55 EDT 2008

Bob,
I agree with this.  Although instead of having a seperate tab for the
selectable layers I was thinking if a layer was listed in the selection
service to be selectable then it would appear in a drop down menu called
"Active Layer" right below the "Zoom To" menu.  The same thing could be
done with the popup service, if a layer was listed to have popups it
would be listed in a "Popup Layer" drop down menu.  The idea is you can
only have one layer active (selectable at a time) and one layer that has
popups on at at time.  I think this would be much more intuitive for the
end user.  These layers would always remain active on any navigate
command until the user changed them in the drop down menu.  That way you
could set the most popular layer as the default and then they wouldn't
even have to change anything on start up and could start using the
popups or select tool right away.  If no the application is not using
any popups or select service then these drop down menus would not appear
on the interface.  I through this out as an idea to Dan last week, but
haven't got his reaction yet on the level of effort to make this happen.
What do others think about this idea?  I'm mainly thinking about
simplying it as much as possible for the end users.

In particular I'm thinking this makes a lot of sense for Counties and
cities that primarily deal with people using the parcel layer.  This
still would not address Lee's needs for a dynamic "Jump To" menu, but is
along the same lines.  Just some thoughts on my end and what I am
hearing from my clients.

-Brian

Brian Fischer
Houston Engineering, Inc.
Maple Grove, MN
(763) 493-4522

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From: Bob Basques [mailto:Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us] 
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 11:28 AM
To: Lee Meilleur; Fischer, Brian; geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] multiple layer selection

All,

Some thoughts about this, more from a global perspective . . .

Hmm, this seems like a good idea on the surface,  but I seem to remember
trying this idea out at some previous GeoMoose development version, and
there were some capabilities that implementing it mitigated.   In the
end, the idea was to use a general associative method of having the
selection controls aligned with the particular viewable layer.

Now, since this was implemented in it's current fashion, I've also run
into some occasional what-if scenarios that this new idea would help
with, but I managed to get the existing method to work in the end.
Things like having a selection layer that doesn't have a companion
viewable layer, or at least may not be loaded.

It's almost point towards another "TAB" in my mind, at least if you keep
the operational aspects the same as they are now.  For example, if the
MapBook defines a selection layer, then the control for that selection
layer would appear under the "Select" Tab, or some such.

With some of the recent discussions around separating out the user
configs from the system configs, I think this new method of applying the
capability of selections in a more generic way has come up at the right
time.

bobb

>>> "Fischer, Brian" <bfischer at houstonengineeringinc.com> wrote:

Lee,

Currently this is not possibly with GeoMOOSE.  I'm not sure it ever will
be...it seems like a custom feature.  It would also be hard to program
this to handle all situations.  With that said you could either try to
customize GeoMOOSE yourself or you could easily find a consultant that
could likely do this customization for a reasonable price.  Maybe the
cusomtization could be contributed back to the GeoMOOSE project.
Essentially you would have to write some of your own javascript code so
on the "OnChange" event of the dropdown would have it do something with
the other drop down.

On this note I think I am going to get GeoMOOSE so you can have an
active layer list in a drop down and use that to have users select which
layer is active and selectable.  This is different than how GeoMOOSE
currently handles users specifying which layer is selectable.

-Brian

Brian Fischer
Houston Engineering, Inc.
Maple Grove, MN
(763) 493-4522

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From: geomoose-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:geomoose-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Lee
Meilleur
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 9:52 AM
To: 'geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: [Geomoose-users] multiple layer selection

I saw Jay's post on being able to setup an additional layer to select
on.  Has anyone been able to setup multiple layers to select on?  I'd
like to have a pulldown with multiple layers.  As a layer is selected,
the Jump To options would change for the layer selected.  A non-working
example of what I'm trying to do can be viewed at:

http://www.gis.leg.mn/geomoose/atlas/

There's a Jump To Layer pulldown with multiple layers.  As a layer is
selected, the Jump To list would change accordingly.  Any ideas?  

Thanks.

Lee Meilleur
LCC-GIS Office
Minnesota Legislature
100 Rev. Dr. MLK Jr Blvd.
55 State Office Building
St. Paul, MN 55155
651.296.0098  Fax: 651.297.3697
lee.meilleur at gis.leg.mn
http://www.gis.leg.mn <http://www.gis.leg.mn/> 

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