[mapguide-internals] RFC54 related - as we are changing the layerDefinition and mapDefinition schema

[Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S]

I agree that those changes should be in the same change,
but due to resource constraints on the implementer side,
it was chosen to leave these changes for the next version.

Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S



Zac Spitzer skrev:
> I think this relates to RFC 50 which is also rev'ing layerdefinition
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc50
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> Software supporting MG needs to be updated when the xml schema's change so
> doing
> this all in one hit should reduce the impact of changing these
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> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S <
> ks at geograf.dk> wrote:
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>> I like the idea about specifying the image format, at least for baselayer
>> groups.
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>> It would not be a problem to have such a property on a layer, but how would
>> the viewer use this?
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> Layers aren't really renderable by themselves like maps, except when they
> are WMS'd but WMS can
> specify the requested image format, where would this get used?
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>> AFAIK, the viewers do not support overlay images, and thus always render
>> the map as a single image.
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> Perhaps there should be a default image format for a map which can be
> overridden at the (base) layer group level
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> Selection color has been an issue forever, and having different colors for
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>> different layers would be nice.
>> I don't know enough about the selection code to determine if this can be
>> done efficiently, but I would like the functionality as well.
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> it would be nice to resolve that, selection almost requires a layer
> definition to describe it's formatting
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>> Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S
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>> Zac Spitzer skrev:
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>>> with RFC54 proposing to rev the layerDefinition and mapDefinition
>>> formats, can we consider
>>> what other changes that might get made
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>>> Being able to specify the image format for both "layer groups" and
>>> "base layer groups" within a mapDefinition,
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>>> Also the selection color for a layerDefinition
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>>> z
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