[Phpmyadmin-devel] Visualizing GIS data.

[Tyron Madlener]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Madhura Jayaratne
<madhura.cj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have pushed into my repo, the code for visualizing GIS data. I used SVG
> for this purpose and i'm writing the SVG tags accordingly. This allows the
> users without JS support also to view the visualizing oppose to using jQuery
> SVG to generate SVGs. Further it allows the SVGs to be saved, which is one
> of the upcoming features. However I use jQuery SVG to manipulate the SVGs
> (zoom and pan), so the users with JS support gets a better user experience.
> I have also integrated two small libraries [1],[2] to allow panning the SVG
> on dragging and zooming on mouse wheel movement. These are not strictly
> needed but nice to have ones.
> One problem of SVG is the IE versions <=8 does not support is. I am using
> the GD library to generate a PNG image for them and this is in line with
> saving those visualization to various formats.
> You can test this out at my demo server[3] using the data in the opengis
> table. Please be kind enough to share your comments.
>

2 things I noticed:
- When zooming it doesn't zoom relative to the cursor position
- I couldn't use any of the form fields below - the svg area was always in focus

I'm using Chrome under Windows XP.

> --
> Thanks and Regards,
> Madhura Jayaratne
>
> [1] http://brandonaaron.net/code/mousewheel/docs
> [2] http://threedubmedia.com/
> [3] http://demo.phpmyadmin.net/gsoc-madhura/index.php
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