[mapserver-dev] Add support for using all OGR style parameters

[Tamas Szekeres]

Hi All,

Any comments in this topic?

Best regards,

Tamas



2012/9/29 Tamas Szekeres <szekerest at gmail.com>

> Hi All,
>
> Currently the OGR driver supports to get only of the various OGR label
> style parameters as special attributes (ie. OGR:LabelText or OGR_LabelAngle)
>
> We would like to use further style parameters in mapserver so I've added a
> sample implementation for this in my forked repo:
>
>
> https://github.com/szekerest/mapserver/commit/78c2e56c0e5d9a5da68ed6719881392230a587f3
>
> This implementation provides support to use the following special
> attributes
>
> OGR:LabelParam[paramId]
> OGR:BrushParam[paramId]
> OGR:PenParam[paramId]
> OGR:SymbolParam[paramId]
>
> where [paramId] is an integer value according to
> the OGRSTLabelParam, OGRSTBrushParam, OGRSTPenParam, OGRSTSymbolParam
> enumerations in ogr_core.h<http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr__core_8h-source.html>
> .
>
> With this addition we can easily map feature styles (ie mapinfo styles) to
> classes for example by using *CLASSITEM [OGR:BrushParam2]* which refers
> to the mapinfo brush id.
>
> What are the opinions about such kind of addition?
>
> BTW: the ogr autostyle mechanism provides support to map style id-s to
> mapserver symbols but as of mapserver 6.0 this can be used less
> efficiently, since many of the symbol parameters (like patterns) has been
> moved to the style sections. So we'd prefer to map styleid-s to classes
> instead of symbols then.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tamas
>
>
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