[OpenLayers-Dev] donut-like polygons

[Roald de Wit]

Hi Jachym,

Another great addition to OL's vector editing capabilities!

Whilst doing some random subjective testing I noticed the following
(using FF3):

      * I *can* use freehand for the 'hole' bit! Great!
      * I can draw multiple holes. Great!
      * After drawing the hole and double clicking, the circle does not
        disappear. That's probably a minor issue
      * When I draw 2 (or more) overlapping polygons, and draw the hole
        in the overlapping area, the donut is created in the first drawn
        polygon. Is that intended?

When I look at your patch you seem to start working with the first
feature that intersects with your mouse 'coordinates'. Wouldn't it be
more intuitive to have a selected feature and draw the hole in that one?
Then you can more easily add the donut-cababilities to the list of
modifications (like rotation, resizing, dragging and editing).

Cheers, Roald

On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 21:29 +1030, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I submitted new ticket with patch (needs more work) with initial
> implementation of the possibility to digitize 'hole' into existing
> polygon (donut-like polygon) [1], something like
>
>
> +-----+
> | +-+ |
> | | | |
> | +-+ |
> +-----+
>
> How to test:
>
>     * Digitize polygon
>     * Press CTRL key and digitize new polygon inside existing one
>
> Where to test:
>
>     * http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/jachym/donut_polygons/examples/editingtoolbar.html
>     * http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/jachym/donut_polygons/examples/modify-feature.html
>
> and others
>
> I would welcome any comment about the approach, I choosed. The patch
> works for me, but I can imagine, someone would like to see more
> general aproach.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jachym
>
> [1] http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1894
>
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Roald de Wit
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