= !MapGuide RFC 26 - Stylize Elevation Layer =

This page contains an change request (RFC) for the !MapGuide Open Source project.  
More !MapGuide RFCs can be found on the [wiki:MapGuideRfcs RFCs] page.

== Status == 
 
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||Submission Date||Aug 2, 2007||
||Last Modified||Maggie Yang [[Timestamp]]||
||Author||Maggie Yang||
||RFC Status||draft||
||Implementation Status||under development||
||Proposed Milestone||1.3||
||Assigned PSC guide(s)||(when determined)||
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== Overview ==

The purpose of this RFC is to allow !MapGuide to stylize the elevation data, which configured surface style in its layer definition.

== Motivation ==

Map 3D can publish stylized elevation layer, such as DEM and GeoTIFF file to !MapGuide. 

While, !MapGuide cannot display this elevation data published from Map 3D with surface style, because the !MapGuide do not have the stylization mechanism for grid surface data. 
So, in this release, we will make !MapGuide has the ability to stylize the elevation layer. If publish a stylized elevation layer from Map 3D to !MapGuide, the user would see Figure 1 in !MapGuide Studio in the future, not the Figure 2, which is the current status for elevation data in !MapGuide.

||[[Image(After.JPG, align=center)]]|| instead of ||[[Image(Before.JPG, align=center)]]||
||Figure1|| ||Figure2||

== Proposed Solution ==

Modify Stylization project to support the stylization of the elevation data, with surface style. New classes will be introduced to handle those style information, such as color, band, surface, hillshade and etc.

== Implications ==

This RFC does not describe any GUI modifications and does not affect the existed published API.

== Test Plan ==

After publishing a elevation data from Map 3D to !MapGuide server, the elevation image should display as it was shown in Map 3D.

== Funding/Resources ==

Supplied by Autodesk.