Proposal #1: SpatialSelectorField Form Widget for MapStore

Overview

Create a full customizable and pluggable Form widget for GeoSpatial selection with GeoCoder

• Overview
• Motivation
• Proposal
• Feedback
• Backwards Compatibility
• Voting

Proposed By

Alessio Fabiani (afabiani)

Assigned to Release

TBD, tentatively 1.5 or 1.6

State

Choose one of: Under Discussion, In Progress, Completed, Rejected, Deferred

Motivation

Developing MapStore for several customers, we identified a commonly used and required form widget very useful on a wide variety of projects.

Waht we propose to implement basically, is a pluggable and configurable form widget providing a set of selectors allowing the MapStore user to create a "Region Of Interest" on the map.

The widget will be fully pluggable and will allow a user to draw a ROI on the map using different methods selectable through a combo-box:

1. Square Bounding Box selection
2. Custom Polygon
3. A Circle
4. A Buffer
5. A GeoCoder

TODO

Proposal

The SpatialSelectorField

TODO

Feedback

This section should contain feedback provided by PSC members who may have a problem with the proposal.

Backwards Compatibility

The new code will be compatible with GXP and MapPanel. Should be therefore backward compatible with all versions of MapStore.

Notice that for the Buffer and GeoCode selectors, the widget will need the WPSClientManager connected to a GeoServer WPS instance and the WFSDataStore connected to a GeoServer WFS instance.

Voting

Alessio Fabiani: +1