[Geoserver-users] R: SLD editor

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Indeed this seems very odd to me: I was sure there would have been plenty of open source utility to edit visually an SLD style, but there's none today.

In my company we are in great difficult for this reason: programmers are the only capable of editing an SLD document with good proficiency but they are busy developing the application that will use it, and the GIS people has not all the XML and WMS knowledge needed to create more then the simplest style.

Maybe SLD is not so much used today?

Cheers,

Fabio

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: geoserver-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:geoserver-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] Per
conto di Shoaib Burq
Inviato: mercoledì 21 febbraio 2007 14.19
A: gpio Oxxce
Cc: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Oggetto: Re: [Geoserver-users] SLD editor

Hi George

udig is the closest thing I found to this but it doesn't
support the complete SLD spec. http://udig.refractions.net

So if you are doing some more than just simple styling with
labeling you will still need to do some hand editing of the
SLD generated by udig.

hope this helps

Shoaib
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http://nomad-labs.com

On 2/22/07, gpio Oxxce <gp_io_07@anonymised.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I made a Google search for SLD editors, but I did not find anything
> interesting.
> I am looking for a GUI tool which will load the shapefile,
allow some
> styles modifications and save the style as SLD document.
>
> Does anyone knows if such software exists?
>
> thx
> George
>
>
>
>
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Fabio Da Soghe ha scritto:

Indeed this seems very odd to me: I was sure there would have been
plenty of open source utility to edit visually an SLD style, but
there's none today.

In my company we are in great difficult for this reason: programmers
are the only capable of editing an SLD document with good proficiency
but they are busy developing the application that will use it, and
the GIS people has not all the XML and WMS knowledge needed to create
more then the simplest style.

Maybe SLD is not so much used today?

The only systems I know using SLD are those Geotools based, and DeeGree.
uDig uses SLD under covers, whilst unfortunately Geoserver does not have
an SLD editor. To be fair, uDig covers the most common cases, and makes
you revert to SLD hand coding for the most complex issues.

The WMS spec did not force people to use SLD, and given the complexity
of the specification, most just flew away.

I agree an SLD editor is very much needed, yet:
* basic cases are handled by uDig. The only pity is that it's hard to
   build a complex layered style with different "simple" styles for
   different scale levels, and hard to apply filters (the CQL module
   would allow for quick and intutive filter spec input).
* more complex ones tend to turn into scripts anyways. On the
   Sigma demo we do have an SLD that is around 2000 lines, any graphical
   editor allowing to play with such a best would not probably be much
   simpler than coding XML directly...

I guess the middle ground is the interesting territory that's not
covered, that is, scales and filters with relatively static symbolizers.
uDig could evolve to cover it.

Cheers
Andrea