[mapserver-dev] Call for discussion on MS RFC 115: Upgrade and cleanup of Tutorial and Demo datasets

[Lime, Steve D (MNIT)]

Looks like a great start. Some comments:

  - I'd completely forget about legacy demos except for perhaps inspiration. They'll do nothing but cause confusion.
  - Suggestions for other in depth tutorials:
    -> anatomy of a MapServer application - how to arrange mapfiles, includes, data, templates, web assets, configuring Apache. Would be nice to endorse a structure...
    -> MapServer security
    -> queries (modes query, nquery, itemquery) and templates (new style only). You can really do a lot with standard queries including generating custom JSON/GEOJSON services and many user simply don't know what's possible.
    -> run-time configuration, parameter validation and setting defaults.1
    -> integration with common client platforms - OL2/OL3, Leaflet, Google Maps, Bing. Some super simple demos will go a long way, both for background/overlay map support but also for query support. 

One thing I always enjoyed about the OL demos was how succinct they were - one feature highlighted at a time. I would encourage some of that here if possible...

Is there any plan to make this downloadable?

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: mapserver-dev [mailto:mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Morissette
Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2016 6:28 PM
To: mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] Call for discussion on MS RFC 115: Upgrade and cleanup of Tutorial and Demo datasets

Big thanks to Julien, Lars, Lars and Seth for undertaking this. It was 
for sure long overdue.

I'd like to remind everyone that they laid out a clear plan in the RFC 
and are awaiting your feedback. The plan includes both updating the 
tutorial pages on the website, and also preparing a new "official" demo 
dataset to replace the original Itasca demo.

We'll leave another couple of days for feedback and then proceed with 
the vote to adopt the RFC.

Daniel



On 2016-02-26 11:13 AM, Julien Enselme wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The state of the new tutorial at the end of the code sprint can be
> found here: [1]
>
> The first six sections have text. Only the live example of the first
> section is working on the site. The others will be corrected soon (at
> least I hope).
>
> [1]: http://gislars.github.io/mapserver_docs/tutorial/index.html#tutorials-for-mapserver-6
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Julien Enselme
> Software Engineer
> Ioda-Net SÀRL, Switzerland
>
> On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 15:08 +0000, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) wrote:
>> Will do, just wanted to say that it's great to see this taken up as a
>> new piece of work... --Steve
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mapserver-dev [mailto:mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On
>> Behalf Of lars lingner
>> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 3:57 AM
>> To: MapServer Dev Mailing List <mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
>> Subject: [mapserver-dev] Call for discussion on MS RFC 115: Upgrade
>> and cleanup of Tutorial and Demo datasets
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> at the current OSGeo Codesprint we started work on an updated version
>> of
>> the MapServer tutorial.
>>
>> Please have a look at our RFC [1], [2]. We would like to ask for any
>> feedback or additions. By end of the week we hope to have a first
>> version ready. The work will continue and should also be cover the
>> tutorial within OSGeo-Live, where the release cycle starts in April
>> this
>> year.
>>
>> We would also like to ask how we can add a live demo
>> to  demo.mapserver.org
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Lars
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-115.html
>> [2]
>> https://github.com/mapserver/docs/blob/branch-7-0/en/development/rfc/
>> ms-rfc-115.txt
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