[mapserver-dev] Request for review/comments on RFC 85 (Contour Layer Rendering)

[Brent Fraser]

Hmm,  I see we've already started down the CONNECTIONTYPE road with RFC 
78 (CONNECTIONTYPE UVRASTER)...

Best Regards,
Brent Fraser

On 9/20/2012 10:26 AM, Brent Fraser wrote:
> Alan,
>
>     Looks very interesting, especially the concept of a "hybrid" layer 
> (raster in, lines out).  Using CONNECTIONTYPE to specify the 
> contouring of the raster seems like overloading the meaning of that 
> object somewhat, but I don't really have a better solution. One of the 
> problems of using CONNECTIONTYPE is that I won't be able to get my 
> raster from PostGIS (unless i go through OGR?).
>
>   We have a few of other hybrid (+/-) layers:
>        tile index
>        GRID
>        Chart
>
> each specified in their own way.  I think I would prefer the TILEINDEX 
> way of referencing another layer to get the details of the input:
>
> LAYER
>     NAME "dem"
>     TYPE raster
>     CONNECTIONTYPE "postgis"
>     DATA "myRasterTable"
> END
> LAYER
>     TYPE line
>     DATA "dem"  # the name of the input layer
>     PROCESSING "Contour"
>     :
>
> or it just may be more confusing and not worth the flexibility...
>
> Best Regards,
> Brent Fraser
>
> On 9/20/2012 9:40 AM, Alan Boudreault wrote:
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> I'd like to request some review on a pending RFC regarding support 
>> for contour layer rendering.
>>
>> Please see 
>> https://raw.github.com/mapserver/docs/master/en/development/rfc/ms-rfc-85.txt
>>
>> The official rfc page should be updated in about a hour.
>>
>> http://mapserver.org/trunk/development/rfc/ms-rfc-85.html.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alan
>
>
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