wiki:ReplacingIntermap

Use OpenLayers for web mapping interface (replace Intermap with OL)

Date 2008/06/20
Contact(s) etj, francois, Jose, Bart
Last edited Timestamp
Status draft
Assigned to release to be determined
Resources ?

Overview

Replace IM with a more responsive map client.

Some screenshots & suggestions

geocat.ch sandbox

NGR

Geoportal in Mali (Jean Pommier)

Dummy prototype

MEDWIP

GeoExt

Proposal Type

  • Type: GUI Change, Module Change
  • App: !Intermap
  • Module:

Voting History

  • No votation requested yet.

Motivations

The current implementation of the map client needs an image transfer from the Intermap server every time something in the map changes.
OpenLayers has a quite different architecture, where many efforts has been spent in order to minimize heavy data transfers from map servers to the client. Also many map operations are ready out of the box. Removing the IM webapp in order to simplify the installation is also a nice target.

The main objectives are :

  • add support for some Intermap missing functionnalities:
    • allow simple vector feature support (bbox highlight, define bbox or bounding polygon in the editor)
    • allow non WGS84 projection support and use proj4js to reproject vector feature when needed
      • using non WGS84 projection could still raise issue when user add a WMS layer from a remote service which does not support the client projection
  • improve :
    • map viewing (tiling, layer tree)
    • pdf printing

GUI will be mainly written using javascript. It will be easier to update the layout as it will use div and css (instead of existing deeply nested table layout). A jeeves service named "home" is using XSL to read localized string for the UI. Then all the layout will be HTML and JS.

Proposal

Catalogue search form

Search form is composed of a simple and advanced mode. Search criteria available by default are:

  • simple search form
    • full text
    • region (list of values) or bounding box
    • INSPIRE : annex I, II, III *
    • INSPIRE : Discovery, View, Download, Transform, Invoke, Other
    • INSPIRE : theme
  • advanced search form
    • title
    • abstract
    • keyword (autocompletion)
    • type (dataset and series (default), service (WMS, WFS))
    • topic category
    • from time to time
    • catalogue
    • organisation
    • contact
    • group
    • kind (metadata (default), template) [identify user only]
    • Valid [identify user only]
    • To publish [identify user only]
  • For all INSPIRE parameters a config file parameter should allow to turn it on/off

Autocompletion or list of values is made using GetDomain operation.

Catalogue search results

  • header:
    • sortBy (relevance(default), popularity, title, changeDate, rating)
    • number of restuls per page (10 (default), 20, 50, 100)
    • output (small, medium, thumbnail)
    • Select all/none optio / Number of selected records
    • Export format: pdf, kml, txt, georss
    • Massive actions

Example:

  • Search results:
    • small view:
      • group logo
      • title
      • keyword
      • icon type (dataset/service)
      • rating widget
    • medium
      • small view +
      • abstract
      • thumbnail
      • icons (see NGR)

  • thumbnail
    • group logo
    • title
    • thumbnail

Actions:

  • Click on title to see the metadata (popup view in tab view ? or default view, how to switch to open advanced view ?)
  • Mouse overlay on a result highlight the bounding box.
  • Double click on a result zoom to the bounding box.
  • Admin actions (edit/delete/duplicate/privileges)
  • Interactive actions (add to map, download)

Config parameters :

  • output
  • export format

Map Features

One "mini-map" is used to define search criteria and higlight bounding box of search results. One "big-map" is used to make your map and display geographic data using OGC Services.

Common map features

Function Available in 2.2 geocat.ch NGR Available Comments
Zoom in/out X X default OL navigation or in map toolbar
Zoom slider X default OL navigation
Panning X X default OL navigation or in map toolbar
Zoom to full extent X X double click the metadata record to go to the metadata extent

Mini-map features

Function Available in 2.2 geocat.ch NGR Available Comments
Metadata Bbox higlighter X
Current view bounds is used for bbox search X

Big-map features

Function Available in 2.2 geocat.ch NGR Available Comments
Get feature info X X
Layer tree X X X GeoExt layer tree (add, remove, view, reorder, transparency)
Pdf printing X X X
WMC X X
previous/next view X

Intermap feature not available in the proposal

Function Available Comments
Markers & annotation Not planned yet

To be discussed

Required librairies :

  • OpenLayers (2.8?)
  • GeoExt (0.5?)
  • MapFish (?)

The GeoEditorViewer proposal add the OpenLayers 2.8 and GeoExt 0.5 libs.

Related works :

Backwards Compatibility Issues

Risks

Participants

  • Francois (geocat.ch)
  • Patrick (geocat.ch)
  • igrcic
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