[Geomoose-users] Question on Jump To list

[Jim Klassen]

This is exactly why I don't like the jump to list (and have lobbied for its removal since at least GeoMoose 2.0).  It works (sort of) for smaller installations, but even then it is a hassle of having to calculate and place bounding boxes in the mapbook when you probably already had them in a vector format somewhere.  

Personally, I think it is more useful and more maintainable to implement the jump to functionality as a search on a layer that has your polygons.  Find town by name (or partial name); return a list of matches; user selects the one they want and the map zooms/pans to the selection.  This also lets you have more than one category of jump-to... say counties, zip codes, park names, and even potentially addresses.

Just my 2 cents.

Jim

On Aug 20, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Bistrais, Bob wrote:

> I have modified the Jump To list on my GM 2.6 applications so they contain a complete list of Maine town names (over 900 entities).  While this works, we have a few issues with it-
> -It’s a bit slow to load, at least initially
> -If you try to type the first few letters of a town name, the list does not scroll down toward your intended selection (it did in GM 2.2)
> -can’t scroll the list using arrow keys
>  
> I don’t know if this has anything to do with the switch to Dojo or something else, but in any case, is there anything I can do to rectify these issues?
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