[mapguide-internals] MapGuide RFC 14 - Cartographic StylizationEngine (maybe this time I'll get it right)

[Paul Spencer]

Carsten,

Why can you not reference it inside the existing SymbolLibrary object  
in the repository?  This mechanism is already used for point symbols  
and seems to fit semantically for this purpose too.  I believe there  
is already a way to do this using MarkSymbolType or something like  
that (I'm not looking at the schema for layer definition so I may  
have that wrong)

Cheers

Paul

On 4-Feb-07, at 3:23 PM, Carsten Hess wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> I think we have four choices for binary raster data:
>
> 1) We could attach it to the symbol resource as binary data  
> (resource data)
> 2) We could make it its own resource
> 3) We could put it  somewhere on the file system
> 4) We could embedd it in the XML as base64 encoded stream
>
> Currently you find 3) only because of our prototype, we actually  
> don't want to propose that. We played with some of the XML and use  
> it to refer to raster via the file system. That is easier to debug  
> then in the resource repository.
>
> The schema refers to 2) and 4) I think as a possiblity ... I  
> personally also like 1) but then we would have to figure out how to  
> refer to it and how to put multipl raster in there.
>
> Cheers
>   Carsten
>
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Paul  
> Spencer (External)
> 	Sent: Sun 2/4/2007 12:22 PM
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> 	Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] MapGuide RFC 14 - Cartographic  
> StylizationEngine (maybe this time I'll get it right)
> 	
> 	
>
> 	I notice that the first example references an image in the Library://
> 	but the documentation in the proposed schema say its a reference to
> 	an external image.
>
> 	Is the intention to actually reference images on the server in an
> 	external location on the file system, external via http, or actually
> 	to allow putting images into the repository?
>
> 	I like the idea of being able to put images such as PNGs into the
> 	repository and referencing them there - but there is no concept of
> 	this in the proposed schema.
>
> 	I guess, thinking about this, it would be best to reference an image
> 	inside a SymbolLibrary.  What would be the implications of this to
> 	your proposal?
>
> 	Cheers
>
> 	Paul
>
> 	On 2-Feb-07, at 4:29 PM, Robert Bray wrote:
>
> 	> THIS TIME SENT AS VERY PLAIN TEXT with FIXED LINK - SORRY FOR THE
> 	> SPAN ALL
> 	>
> 	> All,
> 	>
> 	> We would like to submit the following RFC for open discussion and
> 	> comments:
> 	>
> 	> http://www.osgeo.org/trac/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc14
> 	>
> 	> - Note this RFC is living on our new Trac based Wiki. The other
> 	> RFCs will be moving to this location shortly.
> 	>
> 	> Please respond to the list with any feedback and we will be happy
> 	> to respond.
> 	>
> 	> Thanks,   Walt, Traian, Carsten, Jason (and others like Bob the
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