Hi Stéphane, Ecaterina and all,
Hope all of you are doing wonderful!
So I am working on the new iteration for the Interactive Maps Application
and have made some progress which I would like to share with all of you.
As suggested by Stephane, the application is now being developed on a new
architecture which emphasizes the use of Solr queries for gathering data to
display on the map. The space has also been changed to "Maps" as suggested
by Ecaterina.
Link:
https://github.com/9inpachi/interactive-maps-new
I have not shifted the files to xwiki-contrib because I wanted an initial
review if I am doing the right thing so I don't have to change the whole
repo twice.
I have been able to generate a map and the application is now able to
handle basic queries to include points (markers) inside the map.
I would like you to please give it a look and let me know if I am going in
the right direction. :)
Main application pages:
- Maps.Code.Map.MapClass => The main map class
- Maps.Code.Map.MapSheet => Map sheet that renders the map
- Maps.Code.Map.WebHome => Simple form for creating a map object page
- Maps.Code.Point.PointClass => Main class for a simple point (marker)
- Maps.Code.Leaflet => Page where all the javascript and stylesheet
extensions exist
- Maps.Code.CommonMacros => Some common macros used throughout the
application
- Maps.MapTesting => Space that contains objects and maps for testing
For adding a Point, create a simple page, add content to it and attach a
PointClass object with a value to it.
If you want to have a look at how the map is rendered, see the MapSheet and
the relevant jsx (leaflet-main) code on the Leaflet page.
I have attached some screenshots to show what the application does at this
point.
Best,
Fawad
On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 5:12 PM Fawad Ali <m.fawaadali98(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Stéphane,
Thanks for this. It summarizes our discussions perfectly. :)
It's actually great that we are on the same page now. I will provide you
with updates soon.
Best,
Fawad
On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 4:34 PM Stéphane Laurière <slauriere(a)xwiki.com>
wrote:
> Fawad, Caty, all,
>
> A quick update following a video call I had with Fawad:
>
> - The Solr API will be used to query the data to be displayed on the map,
> and the Solr facets to apply additional filters
>
> - The data returned by the Solr API will be converted to GeoJSON. Later
> on we may consider creating a Solr service that returns (Geo)JSON directly
> rather than HTML, to be discussed.
>
> Next steps:
>
> - Creation of a basic Map class with a Solr query field
>
> - Creation of a MapSheet that will render the map itself
>
> - Creation of a Point class that will consist of one field storing the
> latitude and the longitude separated by a comma (later on, if needed, we
> will consider storing the latitude and the longitude in two distinct fields)
>
> - Manual creation (or via the BatchImport application) of 1) a set of
> sample pages that will consist of: a title, some content, and a Point
> object attached to each page, 2) a Map object with a simple Solr query
> returning all pages with a Point object in a specific space.
>
> - Conversion of the the results provided by Solr into GeoJSON so that the
> data can be consumed and displayed by Leaflet
>
> Fawad, please don't hesitate to mention any complementary aspect that I
> may have forgotten or questions you may have.
>
> Cheers
>
> Stéphane
>
>