[Geomoose-users] Question on Jump To list

[Bistrais, Bob]

Well, my 900+ town Jump To list actually worked very well in 2.2.  But taking a cue from these responses, I'm trying to cobble together a simple query service.  I am getting the results and they are highlighting.  But I'd like to know how to automatically zoom to that selected town? I know that I need to get the extent of the selected town and then call the zoomExtent (or maybe the zoomToPointsList?) function.  Suggestions?

From: geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mark Volz
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 4:35 PM
To: geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] Question on Jump To list

Hello,

Just my two cents on the subject.

1)  I actually like the jump-to boxes.  I think they work really well when there are less than 35 or so jump-to locations.

2)  One idea I had that might be interesting for searching is having the option to include an generic search box similar to how browsers have web search built directly into the browser.  This way the user wouldn't have to be concerned about changing the search to "search parcel" or "search township" etc.  Instead they would just type in what they are looking for and the GeoMOOSE configuration could store what layers and fields that it should search.  I don't know if that would be possible or not, or if it would be difficult.  However I think that it might make the site more user friendly.

Mark Volz
GIS Specialist

From: geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> [mailto:geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]<mailto:[mailto:geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]> On Behalf Of Jim Klassen
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 1:53 PM
To: Bistrais, Bob
Cc: geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] Question on Jump To list

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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