Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Newbie question: how do I create a legend?

[Rafael S. <raf...@gm...>]

Thanks for all the answers!

Rafael

> Hi Rafael,
>
> Unfortunately, there is no legend widget in GeoTools presently. Your
> query is one of several about this in recent months so it's certainly
> a gap that would be nice to fill - though far from trivial to
> implement.
>
> If you want the legend to be displayed in the same viewport as the
> layers, one way to do it would be to sub-class DirectLayer and do the
> drawing in there. If the map styling is very simple you could probably
> get an ok result that way. If complex styles are used it's going to be
> hard.
>
> Ideally, legend creation would be done with SLD. Perhaps Andrea, Jody
> or other SLD gurus could offer some advice on any approaches worth
> exploring in that regard.
>
> Sorry I can't be more immediately helpful.
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 11 May 2012 11:51, Rafael Santos<raf...@gm...>  wrote:
>> Hello there,
>>
>> I guess that the answer is "not easily", but I'd appreciate if someone
>> pointed me to the right direction. I have a MapContent with three layers
>> on it and I'd like to generate a simple legend for this map. Is that
>> possible?
>>
>> thanks
>> Rafael
>>
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