[Geomoose-users] Layer functions

[Brent Fraser]

Brian Fischer wrote:
> Brent,
> Take a look at this site http://klamathdss.org/watershedviewer/, expand a layer group, then click on the layer name.  You'll notice the icons display below the layer name.  We essentially created an icon toggle because we were running out of screen space to put the icons next to the layer.  You'll see there are a couple extra icons already there like metadata and identify.  It wouldn't be hard to add the "zoom to" function.  I'm not a big fan of right-click menu's in web apps either.
> 

Your implementation is a good compromise; I like it!

> In regards to the GeoEXT.  This has been a discussion topic for a while.  Len has used JQuery now for a couple of our projects.  For example he has the open attribute table working for search results.  It's pretty nice.  It's not a public app, but we could show you if you want to see how it works sometime.  Just shoot us an email offline. This fits nicely in with the user extension concept Dan started in the last version of GM.

I'm just looking for a way forward to add functionality to GM without re-coding 
the wheel.  Sounds like jQuery would at least supply the hub (but not the tire) ;)

Brent

> 
> Brian Fischer, CFM  GIS Project Manager
> Houston Engineering, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Little [mailto:danlittle at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 7:56 PM
> To: Brent Fraser; GeoMOOSE Users List
> Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] Layer functions
> 
> Some thoughts:
>  - The "zoom tos" are really not all that hard to add and could be done with layer-controls.  Layer-controls are designed to provide extra "icons" next to each layer and have some type of useful functionality.
>  - Export to Shapefile only works for specific datasets and security/customization is usually a concern with this type of functionality.
>  - I tend to highly dislike right-click menus because they obscure functionality from users.
>  - GeoExt is a bad idea:
>    * Ext is another major dependencies.
>    * The dual-license of Ext would require people putting GeoMOOSE in a production environment to pay the Ext license.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
>> To: GeoMOOSE Users List <geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Sent: Mon, June 7, 2010 12:32:34 PM
>> Subject: [Geomoose-users] Layer functions
>>
>> I've been thinking about the Catalog tab, the list of layers, and 
>> layer functions.
> 
> Some layer functions I'd like to see:
>     (From 
>> Quantum GIS:)
> - Zoom to Layer Extent
> - Zoom to best scale (for 
>> raster)
> - Open Attribute Table
> - Save as Shapefile (and other 
>> formats?)
> - Properties: metadata, symbology, attributes
> 
> 
> So some 
>> questions:
> - should we consider adding more icons to the layer entries to do 
>> more things?
> - should these icons be configurable (is that the intent of 
>> <layer-controls>?)
> - should we move (at least some of) the icons to a 
>> right-click menu?
> 
> - should we adopt GeoExt to supply the Catalog 
>> container/functions?
> 
> Thanks!
> Brent 
>> Fraser
> 
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