[Qgis-user] including images in (database) attributes

[Brent Wood]

Cheers Niklaas,

The website is developed using the Silverstripe CMS, rainer at silverstripe.com is the guy behind the web mapping stuff. The images are retrieved using a custom web service, from a local image database (now with several 100,000 images). Commercial application called Atlas (www.atlamd.com).

We funded the development of a map search for images in Atlas, which we are looking to update at present. See the map searchtool at 
https://atlas.niwa.co.nz/public.jsp

Enable Assets - images (right of map)
update the map (button top right of map)
(don't zoom right now - the back end web map server is broken)

Choose the left hand Marquee selection tool (box)
draw a box around some area with images on the map
the images in that box will be displayed...
 (note that I've just added about 16,000 echogram images - they are being processed, with thumbnails, etc being generated in a low priority background job - so you'll see lots of entries with no thumbnails until that completes)

This also seems to be very similar to the sort of facility you are looking at implementing - images associated with features (or locations) on a map which can be previewed & downloaded.

I'm considering developing a QGIS plugin to provide similar access from a map based desktop - part of this initiative: http://www.niwa.co.nz/software/quantum-map


Brent



________________________________
 From: Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff <niklaas at kulturflatrate.net>
To: "qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org" <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] including images in (database) attributes
 

Hi Brent,

Brent Wood [2013-11-25 12:38 -0800] :

>Not quite sure how this fits your needs, but the QGIS "actions" facility was
>implemented originally to do just this on the desktop - and it works well.

OK, great I'll have a look at it!

>Also, we did not use QGIS for this, but built an (Open Source) web 
>facility to
>do this, with a set of images at each location:
>[1]http://www.os2020.org.nz/project-map/
>Click a green triangle (DTIS location) to drill down to the images at each
>site...

This looks great! I could at least digg in the code and get some ideas.

>May give you some ideas if nothing else....

Definitely! Thank you,


Niklaas

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