<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br><font face="Arial" size="2">Cheers Niklaas,</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2">The website is developed using the Silverstripe CMS, rainer@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).</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div class="yui_3_7_2_172_1385067489089_55" style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2">We funded the development of a map search for images in Atlas, which we are looking to update at present. See the map search tool at </font><br><a href="https://atlas.niwa.co.nz/public.jsp">https://atlas.niwa.co.nz/public.jsp</a></div><div class="yui_3_7_2_172_1385067489089_55" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Enable Assets - images (right of map)</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2">update the map (button top right of map)</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">(don't zoom right now
- the back end web map server is broken)</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Choose the left hand Marquee selection tool (box)</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">draw a box around some area with images on the map</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">the images in that box will be displayed...</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> (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)</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">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.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I'm considering developing a QGIS plugin to provide similar access from a map based desktop - part of this initiative: <a
href="http://www.niwa.co.nz/software/quantum-map">http://www.niwa.co.nz/software/quantum-map</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div class="yui_3_7_2_172_1385067489089_62" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div class="yui_3_7_2_172_1385067489089_62" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Brent<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font
face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff <niklaas@kulturflatrate.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" <qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:10 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Qgis-user] including images in (database) attributes<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Hi Brent,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Brent Wood [2013-11-25 12:38 -0800] :<br clear="none"><br clear="none">>Not quite sure how this fits your needs, but the QGIS "actions" facility was<br clear="none">>implemented originally to do just this on the desktop - and it works well.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">OK, great I'll have a look at it!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">>Also, we did not use QGIS for this, but built an
(Open Source) web <br clear="none">>facility to<br clear="none">>do this, with a set of images at each location:<br clear="none">>[1]<a shape="rect" href="http://www.os2020.org.nz/project-map/" target="_blank">http://www.os2020.org.nz/project-map/</a><br clear="none">>Click a green triangle (DTIS location) to drill down to the images at each<br clear="none">>site...<br clear="none"><br clear="none">This looks great! I could at least digg in the code and get some ideas.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">>May give you some ideas if nothing else....<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Definitely! Thank you,<div class="yqt1454570719" id="yqtfd13100"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Niklaas<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:niklaas@kulturflatrate.net" href="mailto:niklaas@kulturflatrate.net">niklaas@kulturflatrate.net</a><br clear="none"><br
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