[Phpmyadmin-devel] Visualizing GIS data.

[Madhura Jayaratne]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Tyron Madlener <tyronx at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Madhura Jayaratne <madhura.cj at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Tyron Madlener <tyronx at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >> >
> >
> > Hi Tyron,
> > Thank you for your time.
> >>
> >> 2 things I noticed:
> >> - When zooming it doesn't zoom relative to the cursor position
> >
> >
> > Yes, I think this should be addressed. I'm looking into it.
> >>
> >> - I couldn't use any of the form fields below - the svg area was always
> in
> >> focus
> >
> >
> > What do you mean by 'form fields below'?  You mean the links referring to
> > the GIT version and all(bottom right)? Yes, that link does not seems to
> > work. But the link in the advertisement on bottom left is working. Wonder
> > how that happens.
>
> No the input fields below the graph. Width, Height, Label column, Spatial
> column
>
>
Actually they are suppose to be on the left side of the visualization, not
below. I think i need to set the default width a bit low so this does not
happen. Didn't notice it since i'm using a wide screen.

About the issue, found the bug and it's now resolved. You should be able see
when the demo server gets updated.

-- 
Thanks and Regards,

Madhura Jayaratne
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