wiki:proposals/MapBackgroundUpdate

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Use Natural Earth dataset for map background

Date 2011/11/20
Contact(s) François Prunayre.
Last edited 2011/11/20
Status CFV
Assigned to release 2.7.0
Resources Available
Ticket # #230

Overview

In default data provided, the country layer is pretty old and needs an update since 2.5.x series (#230). This proposal suggest to move to Natural Earth datasets (​http://www.naturalearthdata.com/) for the coastline and country layers.

Proposal Type

  • Type: Background layer
  • App: GeoServer data
  • Module: Map Interface
  • Documents:
  • Email discussions:
  • Other wiki discussions:

Voting History

  • Vote proposed by Francois on 2011/11/20, result was +/-n (m non-voting members).

Proposal

Natural Earth data are used with a less "aggressive" styling (the yellow border) with blue coastline, white borders and dashed borders in disputed areas

http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/raw-attachment/ticket/230/geonetwork-new-country-border-from-naturalearth-classic.png

http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/raw-attachment/ticket/230/geonetwork-new-country-border-from-naturalearth-widgets.png

Backwards Compatibility Issues

New libraries added

Natural Earth datasets (instead of not really known sources - probably FAO).

Risks

Participants

  • François Prunayre
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