This item is on our roadmap for Styler, a web cartography application.
Graphical icons give maps content and character that goes beyond simple vector styling. Web GIS applications especially must rise to meet the expectations of web users to whom look and feel is important. Our Styler application needs to provide users with an intuitive Image Manager for controlling this aspect of a map's style.
Styler's current management of remote images is not very intuitive and only allows graphics imported via web URL. In addition to better design, the improved Image Manager would have a number of important new features:
- A useful set of Creative Commons licensed default icons.
- Image uploading tools that tie in with the server's security policy. Users with appropriate permissions would be able to store their images on the server.
- Batch importing of a set of images from the web (such as Google's KML images).
- A flexible browser of the server's image library, with images sorted into groups. Images available for browsing include the default set, user's image uploads, and images imported from the web.
The links below contain more information about our proposed Image Manager.
- Design Proposal
- Implementation Details 1 2 3
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