[Geomoose-users] Printing the Legend With the Map

[Dan Little]

In GeoMOOSE 1.X we had the ability to print the legend in the map.  As neat of an idea as it seems the following problems continually arose:
1) "My legend isn't where I want it, how do I change it?"
2) "I don't want all the layers showing in the printed map, but I want them in the application."
3) "I don't know any PHP, how do I modify the template?" ... later followed with ... "My print feature doesn't work, I lost legends, the map, the north arrow, and my Coffee mug."

A design decision was made to not include that feature in 2.X in favor of a static legend or creative users who wish to add the feature back into printing using their own code.

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>From: Len Kne <lkne at houstoneng.com>
>To: Jeffrey Schmitz <jeffreykschmitz at gmail.com>; "geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net" <geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>Sent: Fri, June 25, 2010 8:54:29 AM
>Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] Printing the Legend With the Map
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>Legends are always tough on a web map because the number of layers is dynamic and thus the space needed to provide a legend can greatly vary.  The most common solution to this is to make a static legend with the key layers you want and put them into an image file.  This file can then be added to the PDF template, see http://geomoose.org/howto/print_template.html.
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>Len 
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>From:Jeffrey Schmitz [mailto:jeffreykschmitz at gmail.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 6:28 PM
>To: geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: [Geomoose-users] Printing the Legend With the Map
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>I have been trying to figure out a way to print a legend of the currently visible layers along with the map, but it seems such a feature doesn't exist. Just printing the map out with no reference as to what the symbolys on it mean seems fairly useless. Has anybody else tried to do something similar, or have a possible solution? 
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>Thanks,
>Jeff


      
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