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RE: [udig-devel] Context Document
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Hi,
Web Map Context Documents is a small but handy spec to provide primarily WMS
info in a 'project'-like XML document. It has been implemented by many
vendors of OGC web clients, and includes extensibility objects for handling
more than WMS.
..Tom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jody Garnett [mailto:jgarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 2:46 PM
> To: udig-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [udig-devel] Context Document
>
>
> Repost now that we have a list ...
>
> More interesting tidbits .... looking into persistent
> "project files". I am going to keep sending out email of my
> notes for discussion/reference since I am not convinced
> everyone is going to read all of the specifications before
> our design sessions...
>
> The "WMSContext Specification" is apprently the best OGC
> specifcation they have (although they profess "other draft
> specificaitons, and high aspirations".
>
> Web Map Context Document == Context:
> - grouping of 1 or more maps from 1 or more map servers
> - portable, platform-independent format
> - used for storage or transmission
>
> This looks like a good starting point for our own project
> file, and what we would like to associate with a paper
> output. We would have to extend this to handle our other data
> sources such as WFS.
>
> They had in mind several uses:
> - default start-up view
> - save the state of a client as the user navigates and
> modifies map layers
> - store current settings + additional info such as (styles, formats,
> SRSs) - acts as a local WMS cache
>
> Includes information:
> - server(s) providing layer(s) in map
> - bounding box and map projection shared by maps
> - metadata for client to reproduce the map
> - metadata to annotate or describe the maps
>
> So this really looks like a good candidate for our printing
> module (may even serves as the object model to isolate
> printing services from the rest of the application).
>
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