Wednesday, January 30, 2008

image zoom and table row expansion

Working on merging CaSIL with the new California State Template, I have put together an "eye candy" selection method to show which row your mouse is currently over. The idea is derived from application docks on your desktop. And if you hate it, there is checkbox to turn it off.

http://archive.casil.ucdavis.edu/casil/etc/website/stateTemplate/

Monday, January 14, 2008

OpenLayers and getCapabilities

here is a OpenLayers plug-in I am working on ... type in a URL of an OGC standard service. It parses the getCapabilities response for (currently WMS/WFS) services, then shows available layers. These layers can then be dragged (via YUI widgets) to the add layer pane and added to the map. Color and opacity of WFS services can then be modified along with image type and opacity of WMS services. Layer order is determined by the order of the list (drag to reorder).

California...
http://olgcs.casil.ucdavis.edu/captureTool/test.php

World...
http://olgcs.casil.ucdavis.edu/captureTool/test4310.html

I hope to wrap this tool up and have the source available via svn at gforge.casil.ucdavis.edu at some point.

**Note: This thing only works in FireFox at the moment.