| Re: [udig-users] uDIG : Some questions |
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On Monday, May 02, 2011 11:24:03 am Jérémie MARTINEZ wrote: > Hello, > > Let me introduce myself : I'm Jeremie Martinez, a student of a French > engineering school (INSA Rouen). To complete a project given by a library, > we have to spatialize this library in order to be able to retrieve the > books inside and give users their locations. We have made many researches > and it turns out that uDig seems to be the application which suits the > best with our needs and our skills. I tried to have a conversation with an > administrator on your IRC server but with no success. So, I hope we could > exchange some mails in order to have information about how adapt uDig to > our problem. > > I would like now to present what we plan to develop in order to have your > opinion and maybe some advices in order to start this project in the right > way. Indeed, to succeed in this project, we have to modify the uDig > application and add some plugins to suits better the need of a Library. > > The first thing is to constrain the user to add only form well-defined by > us like an rectangle with a fixed size. So instead of being able to draw a > polygon, we would like to constrain the user to draw only rectangle of a > fixed size. > > Another thing is to be able to visualize further information that it > contains in our PostGIS/PostgreSQL through a WFS/WMS Server (actually > GeoServer is our first choice). Indeed, we have added in our tables some > columns which are not spatial but that we would like to visualize in the > form of a table. > > These two new functionalities have to be in separate views (like we can see > in the RCP System of Eclipse). > > As I wrote it before, we would appreciate some help. Indeed, your uDig > application is pretty consequent and save some time would be appreciated. > So, my main question is how should we start? Any advice would be very > appreciated. > > I'm looking forward to hearing from you soon. Thanks in advance for any > help. > > NB : The application we will develop will continue to be open-source. > Indeed, our customer required it and it's also important for us. Hi Jérémie, welcome!. it will an sucess using the udig framework. You will find some tutorials in this link http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/DEV/Home Plugin Tutorial will be useful for your proposal. cheers -- Mauricio Pazos www.axios.es |