Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Symbol database

[Chris H. <ch...@op...>]

Easiest way is probably to just start a wiki page, and then we can figure 
the rest out later.  Might eventually be nice to have in svn or some such, 
maybe in the udig community svn or something similar.  But for now we can 
just attach files to a wiki page, so that's probably the best option.

Chris

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Xavier Méhaut wrote:

> That sounds good for me ;)
> How could we proceed to start having data? Under which procedure? and so
> on... I'm not skilled enough with geotools and co to be pro-active on
> this...but I can follow the mvt ;) if the process is well defined...
> regards
> Xavier
> 
> Chris Holmes a écrit :
> 
>  I don't know under which format we would need this stuff, but having
> symbols(house, car, ...)  and even patterns (like tree , stone, and so
> on.., patterns) should be very nice ...
>     
> 
>  Yeah, I think this would be cool.  They would not be pure sld files, but 
> rather sld files with links to graphics.  So to download it and use it you 
> would get a basic SLD file that specifies the graphic, and the graphic 
> itself.  And you could expand the SLD as you wanted.
> 
> Would be cool to somehow combine this with James's idea of having 
> pre-defined FeatureTypes, as schema files on the web somewhere, that 
> people could reuse.  They could do the same with SLD files and the 
> graphics.
> 
> Chris
> 
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> 
>  Jody Garnett a écrit :
>       Xavier Méhaut wrote:
> 
>             Hello,
>             I would suggest another section on the wiki, ie
>             the symbol database. The purpose should be to
>             propose ready-to-use (beautiful) symbols in the
>             styling. These symbols could be used by the
>             community to build nice interfaces. The symbols
>             could have their icon (.gif) associated for
>             building GUI buttons..
>             Are you ok with this proposal?
>             regards
> 
> 
>       What an interesting proposal, as a developer of a UI
>       application I always like the idea of premade beatutiful
>       things. There currently exists a legend module that has its
>       own designs on gylph generation for a symbolizer.  The is
>       sound but I would kind of expect any client application to
>       want to let end users have load, save control of symbols for
>       stylings - rather than have this be a programmer thing.
> 
>       Now we could do it as a programmer thing, have a factory that
>       makes a Symbolizer and a  bunch of jars that you can include
>       on your classpath that contains a database of the same.
> 
>       I wonder if the WFS SLD specification has not already done
>       this work for us: that is defined a file format for a
>       Stylizers and the like, if the SLD XML file format includes a
>       legend Gylph then your work is done - you can have a wiki
>       page where people can upload example SLD docuemnts. Perhaps
>       this is what you are thinking of?
> 
>       Jody
> 
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