Mercurial > mxd2map
diff doku/source/functionality.txt @ 250:d10fd4de02aa
Documented a bunch of new features
* Support of picture-marker symbol (issue343)
* Support for ArcGIS named groups (issue381)
* GLOBAL and Layer extents and SRS (issue 379)
| author | Stephan Holl <stephan.holl@intevation.de> |
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| date | Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:15:34 +0200 |
| parents | 00a39e8b6eed |
| children | 4dc2b9aa3c57 |
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--- a/doku/source/functionality.txt Wed Aug 10 15:00:40 2011 +0200 +++ b/doku/source/functionality.txt Fri Aug 12 09:15:34 2011 +0200 @@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ Features -------- +MXD2map is optimized to work best with MapServer 6.x. Therfore the new +MapServer features (symbolhandling, styling etc) are built in. + MXD2map currently supportes the following features: * Datasources: @@ -88,26 +91,29 @@ * Simple marker symbols * Character marker symbols * Arrow marker symbols + * Picture marker symbols (also trancparency is supported if set in MXD) * Symbols based on TTF-characters of special cartographic fonts * Any combination of character marker symbols * Linesymbols with pattern and cartographic attributes * Polygons filled with solid color and outline * Polygons filled with a hatch and hatched outline + * Layer types: * Featurelayer (vectors) as POINT, LINESTRING and POLYGON * Classifications with unique values * Classifications with class breaks * Group-members are concatinated to group.layername. This ensures having discrete layernames - * ArcGIS-layergroups are represented as WMS Named layers, which are WMS-layers without a title (so not requestable throuhg GetMap) + * ArcGIS-layergroups are represented as WMS Named layers, which are WMS-layers without a title (so not requestable through GetMap) * all definition-queries for filtering the data on Layer- and classification-level * Further map attributes: - * Projections and units based on the EPSG-table + * Projections and units based on the EPSG-table (if set in MXD) * Min/max scale denominations at layer and label-level - * Map extents + * Global Map extent + * Layer extent and SRS * Simple labeling * Filter and expressions * ArcSDE Jointables @@ -120,4 +126,7 @@ CLASS-names and also mapfile-names. Though it is good standard not to use them since they mostly cause problems when using them within OWS-related services. - + * Creation of distinct layer-names by concatinating group- and + layernames to WMS-titles. This comes handy mostly in ArcGIS + layergroups. +