[Geoserver-devel] Proposed feature: border around the map

Hi,
in WMS I'd like to add a vendor parameter that allows for
drawing a border around the requested map. I've implemented
a quick and dirty version in my geoserver to debug tiling
issues and it's a very valuable tool for that use case (allows
for tiles to be seen in tiled clients).
What do you think, worthy of being added, or just a geek tool?

Cheers
Andrea

I think it would be great to have it as an option to be configured not
only as a vendor param.

Simone.

On 1/8/07, Andrea Aime <aaime@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hi,
in WMS I'd like to add a vendor parameter that allows for
drawing a border around the requested map. I've implemented
a quick and dirty version in my geoserver to debug tiling
issues and it's a very valuable tool for that use case (allows
for tiles to be seen in tiled clients).
What do you think, worthy of being added, or just a geek tool?

Cheers
Andrea

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Sure, I'd say go ahead and add it. Someone might find it useful.

Also some time we should add this: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-600

A 'graticule' module. Indeed we could probably throw it in 'unsupported' in geotools, now that we have that module. It'd be cool as an option somehow in GeoServer as well. Though obviously not a very high priority...

Chris

Andrea Aime wrote:

Hi,
in WMS I'd like to add a vendor parameter that allows for
drawing a border around the requested map. I've implemented
a quick and dirty version in my geoserver to debug tiling
issues and it's a very valuable tool for that use case (allows
for tiles to be seen in tiled clients).
What do you think, worthy of being added, or just a geek tool?

Cheers
Andrea

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Chris Holmes ha scritto:

Sure, I'd say go ahead and add it. Someone might find it useful.

Cool

Also some time we should add this: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-600

A 'graticule' module. Indeed we could probably throw it in 'unsupported' in geotools, now that we have that module. It'd be cool as an option somehow in GeoServer as well. Though obviously not a very high priority...

Yeah, something I've been thinking to add me too. Requires a bit of planning thought, as the image shows, a grid may make the image look more like a map, but without those coordinates at bottom and left it's pretty much useless (and the position of those points depends on how
you're rendering the map, that is, single shot, tiled).
One thing a graticule module would be really nice for, that does not
need to satisfy the above requirement, is a projection explorer, where
you can see how much geometries are deformed by a certain projection.

Cheers
Andrea

Simone Giannecchini ha scritto:

I think it would be great to have it as an option to be configured not
only as a vendor param.

Hem... I don't feel much like fiddling with the config system and
UI, so... I'll leave the configuration option as an exercise for the reader :-p

Cheers
Andrea