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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>
date Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:15:34 +0200
parents 00a39e8b6eed
children 4dc2b9aa3c57
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76 Features 76 Features
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78 78
79 MXD2map is optimized to work best with MapServer 6.x. Therfore the new
80 MapServer features (symbolhandling, styling etc) are built in.
81
79 MXD2map currently supportes the following features: 82 MXD2map currently supportes the following features:
80 83
81 * Datasources: 84 * Datasources:
82 85
83 * ArcSDE vector database connections (requires MapServer built against ArcSDE, Client-dlls needed) 86 * ArcSDE vector database connections (requires MapServer built against ArcSDE, Client-dlls needed)
86 * Symbols: 89 * Symbols:
87 90
88 * Simple marker symbols 91 * Simple marker symbols
89 * Character marker symbols 92 * Character marker symbols
90 * Arrow marker symbols 93 * Arrow marker symbols
94 * Picture marker symbols (also trancparency is supported if set in MXD)
91 * Symbols based on TTF-characters of special cartographic fonts 95 * Symbols based on TTF-characters of special cartographic fonts
92 * Any combination of character marker symbols 96 * Any combination of character marker symbols
93 * Linesymbols with pattern and cartographic attributes 97 * Linesymbols with pattern and cartographic attributes
94 * Polygons filled with solid color and outline 98 * Polygons filled with solid color and outline
95 * Polygons filled with a hatch and hatched outline 99 * Polygons filled with a hatch and hatched outline
100
96 101
97 * Layer types: 102 * Layer types:
98 103
99 * Featurelayer (vectors) as POINT, LINESTRING and POLYGON 104 * Featurelayer (vectors) as POINT, LINESTRING and POLYGON
100 * Classifications with unique values 105 * Classifications with unique values
101 * Classifications with class breaks 106 * Classifications with class breaks
102 * Group-members are concatinated to group.layername. This ensures having discrete layernames 107 * Group-members are concatinated to group.layername. This ensures having discrete layernames
103 * ArcGIS-layergroups are represented as WMS Named layers, which are WMS-layers without a title (so not requestable throuhg GetMap) 108 * ArcGIS-layergroups are represented as WMS Named layers, which are WMS-layers without a title (so not requestable through GetMap)
104 * all definition-queries for filtering the data on Layer- and classification-level 109 * all definition-queries for filtering the data on Layer- and classification-level
105 110
106 * Further map attributes: 111 * Further map attributes:
107 112
108 * Projections and units based on the EPSG-table 113 * Projections and units based on the EPSG-table (if set in MXD)
109 * Min/max scale denominations at layer and label-level 114 * Min/max scale denominations at layer and label-level
110 * Map extents 115 * Global Map extent
116 * Layer extent and SRS
111 * Simple labeling 117 * Simple labeling
112 * Filter and expressions 118 * Filter and expressions
113 * ArcSDE Jointables 119 * ArcSDE Jointables
114 * Mapfile-Templating for OGC-related stuff 120 * Mapfile-Templating for OGC-related stuff
115 * Simple Labeling-syntax (a subset of ArcGISs VBScript-labels) 121 * Simple Labeling-syntax (a subset of ArcGISs VBScript-labels)
118 124
119 * Umlauts are translated into its equivalents within LAYER-names, 125 * Umlauts are translated into its equivalents within LAYER-names,
120 CLASS-names and also mapfile-names. Though it is good standard not to 126 CLASS-names and also mapfile-names. Though it is good standard not to
121 use them since they mostly cause problems when using them within 127 use them since they mostly cause problems when using them within
122 OWS-related services. 128 OWS-related services.
123 129 * Creation of distinct layer-names by concatinating group- and
130 layernames to WMS-titles. This comes handy mostly in ArcGIS
131 layergroups.
132
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