Changes between Version 12 and Version 13 of BluePrintGISFeatureLayers


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Timestamp:
01/04/09 23:40:34 (17 years ago)
Author:
Fran Boon
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  • BluePrintGISFeatureLayers

    v12 v13  
    3535We should provide an option to allow the Feature-Class icon to over-ride individual Feature Icons.
    3636
     37== Storage ==
     38For portability, the default storage for Features is the normal database via Web2Py's [http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples/default/orm DAL].
     39
     40In order to support Lines & Polygons we need to store as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_text WKT]
     41 * UI for Points can hide this behind simple Lat/Lon
     42 * Q: Which lib best for this?
     43  * Shapely: http://trac.gispython.org/lab/wiki/Shapely
     44  * OGR: http://www.gdal.org/ogr/osr_tutorial.html
     45
     46An options should be provided to store in [http://postgis.refractions.net PostGIS] instead, where available, as then can have spatial indexes for speed.[[BR]]
     47Could we extend DAL for spatial indexes?
     48
     49Q: integrate [http://featureserver.org FeatureServer]?
     50
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    3752== Docs ==
    3853 * http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers/Feature/Vector-js.html