[Geomoose-users] Mouseover features?

[TC Haddad]

When UTF grid comes to Mapserver in v.7, it would be awesome if GeoMoose
could take advantage of it.


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Bistrais, Bob <Bob.Bistrais at maine.gov>wrote:

>  Thanks Bob.
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> Yes, something like that is what I meant.  We had a meeting earlier with a
> client who asked if that was possible.
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> *From:* Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) [bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us]
> *Sent:* Friday, January 10, 2014 11:51 AM
> *To:* Bistrais, Bob; geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* RE: Mouseover features?
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>   Bob,
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> We’ve done this on selected versions over the years.  It was a capability
> that was present in earlier versions of GeoMoose.  We have it working in
> our current version (0.98) of GeoMoose at the City.
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> There has always been some discussion on how best to implement this
> feature though.  Our current installation has a toggling system on a layer
> by layer basis  for turning the info hover on/off for each layer, but there
> is a slight learning curve associated with using this method, as you need
> to describe how it works to your users, there is no easy way that I know of
> to explain it with contextual help for example.
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> You can see an example here that uses a IMAGEMAP/POPUP combination, but as
> a hover tool.:
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> http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/gis/gismo_public/html/
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> Zoom into to couple of city block area, and then turn on the Address
> (STAMP) layer, then switch to thew Visible layer tab,   The Address layer
> should be highlighted for activation by a checkbox, just click it on, and
> the hover mode for that layer will be activated in the map.
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> We have really been fortunate on our end to have had this functionality
> for the last 7 years or so in our GeoMoose installation, and are actively
> trying to plicate the capability in the nerwer version Of GeoMoose at the
> moment, but I’ve been over-ruled on the use of Imagemaps, and the idea
> right now is to use AJAX and hover requests on the fly, which are not quite
> as responsive as the IMAGEMAP, since the info is downloaded on demand
> instead of up front the way we do it now.  Make sure you zoom in far enough
> to have the layer activate.  The Street centerline layer is also configured
> for popups.  The highlighting is scale  threshold controlled, so you may
> need to zoom in further for the Addresses vs the Street centerlines.  You
> can click a NAV tool to get out of hover mode.
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> *From:* geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Bistrais, Bob
> *Sent:* Friday, January 10, 2014 9:44 AM
> *To:* geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* [Geomoose-users] Mouseover features?
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> Hi,  I've sarched on this topic but but results were confusing- does
> Geomoose (2.6.1) have the ability to do mouseovers of features?  Example-
> hover mousr over a particular feature, see an attribute value of that
> feature.
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