Mercurial > mxd2map
changeset 230:df533a03ad9f
completed the features and restrictions-section
author | Stephan Holl <stephan.holl@intevation.de> |
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date | Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:33:19 +0200 |
parents | 64cd6a115372 |
children | 4fc0635000d6 |
files | doku/source/functionality.txt doku/source/restrictions.txt |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/doku/source/functionality.txt Fri Jul 29 07:41:29 2011 +0200 +++ b/doku/source/functionality.txt Fri Jul 29 17:33:19 2011 +0200 @@ -77,8 +77,9 @@ MXD2map currently supportes the following features: - * Datasources - * ArcSDE database connections (requires MapServer built against ArcSDE, Client-dlls needed) + * Datasources: + + * ArcSDE vector database connections (requires MapServer built against ArcSDE, Client-dlls needed) * ESRI-Shapefiles * Symbols: @@ -97,7 +98,9 @@ * Featurelayer (vectors) as POINT, LINESTRING and POLYGON * Classifications with unique values * Classifications with class breaks - * Grouplayers with one grouplevel (as MapServer does not support more than one nested level) + * 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) + * all definition-queries for filtering the data on Layer- and classification-level * Further map attributes: @@ -108,10 +111,12 @@ * Filter and expressions * ArcSDE Jointables * Mapfile-Templating for OGC-related stuff + * Simple Labeling-syntax (a subset of ArcGISs VBScript-labels) * Other features - * Umlauts are translated into its equivalents within LAYERnames, - CLASSnames and also mapfile-names. Though it is good standard not to + * Umlauts are translated into its equivalents within LAYER-names, + 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. + *
--- a/doku/source/restrictions.txt Fri Jul 29 07:41:29 2011 +0200 +++ b/doku/source/restrictions.txt Fri Jul 29 17:33:19 2011 +0200 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.. index:: restrictions +.. index:: restrictions, label, Raster, SDE, workaround, picture-symols .. _restriction-label: ------------ @@ -14,9 +14,11 @@ resulting mapfile. * Since MapServer cannot use a FileGeodatabase datasources (yet) the MXD2map - does not support this datasource and will not transform the MXD-file at all. + does not support this datasource and will not transform the MXD-file at + all. This may change in the near future. - * Raster data is not supported by the converter yet. + * Raster data is not supported by the converter yet, though ArcSDE + Raster-support will be available in the near future. Symbol support: @@ -42,7 +44,8 @@ converter, use integer numbers for line width only. * Picture symbols are not supported by the converter since ArcGIS embedds - the image directly into the MXDfile. + the image directly into the MXDfile. This might be supported in the + near future. * In ArcGIS maps default symbols can be defined as fallback within classifications. Since MapServer does not support such fallback symbols or styles @@ -53,11 +56,11 @@ Layer support: - * Grouplayer with more than one group level are not supported by the MapServer - and even not by the converter. - + * Group-layers are represented as WMS Named Layers (not requestable via + GetMap-Request). WMS-clients can recognize them as + 'organisation-layers'. * Expressions for label are parsed by an internal parser in ArcGIS. The - expressions designed for this parser cannot be interpreted by the mapserver. + interpretation of this expressions is very limited though. Therefore label expressions may not contain any special functions or must fit the mapserver expression design pattern.