Re: [xwiki-devs] Map Application - GSoC 19

Hi all, One concern in using the leaflet-indoor is that the indoor structures might not physically exist. For example, if an engineer prepares a model for a house and wants to represent the structure in an independent environment then he will prefer the image as map tiles. ( https://leafletjs.com/examples/crs-simple/crs-simple.html ) Best, Fawad On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 1:46 PM Stéphane Laurière <slauriere(a)xwiki.com> wrote: > Hi Fawad, Hi all, > > > Hi everyone, > > Hope all of you are all right. > > > > I am working on the implementation of Indoor Maps. For that, there are > several options for adaptation. So I need your suggestions. > > The first question is how would the users be using the indoor maps? > > - Would they be using images for each level? > > - Would they prefer to have a normal map and add shape-like objects to > it? > > - Or would they like a mixture of both i.e. a normal map with images as > levels? > > > > For a normal map with multilevel structures - we can use > https://github.com/cbaines/leaflet-indoor > > For using only images - we can make use of > https://leafletjs.com/examples/crs-simple/crs-simple.html > > > > What do you think would be best considering the map's user base? > > Initially I thought about images since many fair organizers provide PDF > plans that could be converted into images, but on second thoughts, starting > primarily with shapes could be even better in terms of user experience > imho. Nothing prevents from adding images in addition in the future, if > some users prefer that approach, or a mix as you suggest. > > This kind of experience is quite inspirational in particular (it's close > to the leaflet-indoor example that you pointed out): > > > https://use.mazemap.com/#v=1&zlevel=1&left=6.8518492&right=6.85… > > That's a question you may consider asking on the forum as well to gather > more inputs? > > Cheers > > Stéphane > > > > > Best, > > Fawad > > > > > >