details: http://hg.intevation.org/geospatial/mxd2map/rev/df533a03ad9f
changeset: 230:df533a03ad9f
user: Stephan Holl <stephan.holl at intevation.de>
date: Fri Jul 29 17:33:19 2011 +0200
description:
completed the features and restrictions-section
diffstat:
doku/source/functionality.txt | 15 ++++++++++-----
doku/source/restrictions.txt | 19 +++++++++++--------
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diffs (90 lines):
diff -r 64cd6a115372 -r df533a03ad9f doku/source/functionality.txt
--- a/doku/source/functionality.txt Fri Jul 29 07:41:29 2011 +0200
+++ b/doku/source/functionality.txt Fri Jul 29 17:33:19 2011 +0200
@@ -77,8 +77,9 @@
MXD2map currently supportes the following features:
- * Datasources
- * ArcSDE database connections (requires MapServer built against ArcSDE, Client-dlls needed)
+ * Datasources:
+
+ * ArcSDE vector database connections (requires MapServer built against ArcSDE, Client-dlls needed)
* ESRI-Shapefiles
* Symbols:
@@ -97,7 +98,9 @@
* Featurelayer (vectors) as POINT, LINESTRING and POLYGON
* Classifications with unique values
* Classifications with class breaks
- * Grouplayers with one grouplevel (as MapServer does not support more than one nested level)
+ * Group-members are concatinated to group.layername. This ensures having discrete layernames
+ * ArcGIS-layergroups are represented as WMS Named layers, which are WMS-layers without a title (so not requestable throuhg GetMap)
+ * all definition-queries for filtering the data on Layer- and classification-level
* Further map attributes:
@@ -108,10 +111,12 @@
* Filter and expressions
* ArcSDE Jointables
* Mapfile-Templating for OGC-related stuff
+ * Simple Labeling-syntax (a subset of ArcGISs VBScript-labels)
* Other features
- * Umlauts are translated into its equivalents within LAYERnames,
- CLASSnames and also mapfile-names. Though it is good standard not to
+ * Umlauts are translated into its equivalents within LAYER-names,
+ CLASS-names and also mapfile-names. Though it is good standard not to
use them since they mostly cause problems when using them within
OWS-related services.
+ *
diff -r 64cd6a115372 -r df533a03ad9f doku/source/restrictions.txt
--- a/doku/source/restrictions.txt Fri Jul 29 07:41:29 2011 +0200
+++ b/doku/source/restrictions.txt Fri Jul 29 17:33:19 2011 +0200
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. index:: restrictions
+.. index:: restrictions, label, Raster, SDE, workaround, picture-symols
.. _restriction-label:
------------
@@ -14,9 +14,11 @@
resulting mapfile.
* Since MapServer cannot use a FileGeodatabase datasources (yet) the MXD2map
- does not support this datasource and will not transform the MXD-file at all.
+ does not support this datasource and will not transform the MXD-file at
+ all. This may change in the near future.
- * Raster data is not supported by the converter yet.
+ * Raster data is not supported by the converter yet, though ArcSDE
+ Raster-support will be available in the near future.
Symbol support:
@@ -42,7 +44,8 @@
converter, use integer numbers for line width only.
* Picture symbols are not supported by the converter since ArcGIS embedds
- the image directly into the MXDfile.
+ the image directly into the MXDfile. This might be supported in the
+ near future.
* In ArcGIS maps default symbols can be defined as fallback within classifications.
Since MapServer does not support such fallback symbols or styles
@@ -53,11 +56,11 @@
Layer support:
- * Grouplayer with more than one group level are not supported by the MapServer
- and even not by the converter.
-
+ * Group-layers are represented as WMS Named Layers (not requestable via
+ GetMap-Request). WMS-clients can recognize them as
+ 'organisation-layers'.
* Expressions for label are parsed by an internal parser in ArcGIS. The
- expressions designed for this parser cannot be interpreted by the mapserver.
+ interpretation of this expressions is very limited though.
Therefore label expressions may not contain any special functions or must fit
the mapserver expression design pattern.