Hi,
I would like to know if it is possible to do the following things in Map Suite Desktop Edition 3.0:
1) Ability to do text annotation (creating small notes over desired portions of the map control) & save the result to a db or pdf?
2) Create Heat maps
Appreciate the information.
Thanks,
Vikram
Vikram,
Hope my following answer can give you some help.
1) I can based on Map Suite Destkop Edition, we have the ability to do the text annotation, and this item seems already is in our working list.
code.thinkgeo.com/issues/show/13
2) We can create heat map as long as the data in based on grid instead of Triangle. We have a HowDoI sample showing how to do this.
HowDoIsamples\Data providers\ LoadAGridFeatureLayer
Any more questions please feel free to let me know.
Thanks.
Yale
Vikram,
I can help you with this. The first is the annotation part and this can be accomplished by our track shape system. You can create track shapes like boxes, points etc and label them. There is also a freehand track type so you can draw odd shaped stuff. You will need to store the results somewhere though. You can if you like store them to a shape file or Access database etc. There isn’t an out of the box example but if you provide some more detail we could try whipping one up for you.
On the PDF side of thing we have a PDF GeoCanvas that you can use to export your maps to vector PDF, you can also same them as a Bitmap, Jpeg or PNG etc. The PDF extension can be found here… gis.thinkgeo.com/Support/DiscussionForums/tabid/143/aff/16/aft/5280/afv/topic/Default.aspx
For the heat maps I did a little research and you should be able to accomplish this using our GridStyle. The grid style uses a grid of cells that each have a number. The numbers can be color coded to represent the various colors and temperatures. If you have sparse data points there are also algorithms that can interpolate the data in between. There are a number of different methods to do that. I have a link to an article showing how to do it in our Map Suite 2.x product. This article is old but the 3.x product can do the same thing but with slightly different classes. I want to show this to you to see if this is something like what you needed. Also scan to the bottom as there is a nice screen shot of using the gradients to make a nice smooth image.
Grid
gis.thinkgeo.com/Support/DiscussionForums/tabid/143/aff/18/aft/4784/afv/topic/Default.aspx
David
Vikram,
Looks like you got two replies. :-) What service!
David
David and Yale,
Thanks for your replies. I checked out the sample LoadAGridFeaturelayer and noticed an existing PhValues.grd file being used. I have a follow up question about the grid file (.grd).
Do I need to create my own grid file to be able to use heat maps over the base map layer? If yes, how do I create/view a grid file?
Thanks and appreciate your reply!
Vikram
Vikram,
Thanks for your post and question.
The .grd file should conform to specified format, you can get more information as following if you want.
docs.codehaus.org/display/GE...rid+format
Any more questions please feel free to let me know.
Thanks.
Yale
Vikram,
Here is another like that I think explains it a bit better and has pictures as well. What kind of data do you have, can you describe it? Is the data in decimal degrees or some other unit like feet or meters? Is the data tied to the ground, meaning do you have spatial coordinates for some of the items? If you supply a sample we can try and help put something together for you to try.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_GRID
David
Vikram.
We are about to release a new style for heat maps. The new style renders really fast and in realtime and is much better for visualizations than the grid method above. I just wanted to refresh this thread and let you know it is coming. We will also have some samples on the code.thinkgeo.com in the coming days.
David