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Recycler
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 12/11/2015 : 17:47:17
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The UK OS free OpenMap vector files are offered with style sheet data (.DIC, .LYR and .OTF files) designed for use with ESRI ArcMap.
Is there a conversion procedure so that they can be understood and used by MapMaker, please? |
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johnnew
United Kingdom
75 Posts |
Posted - 14/02/2016 : 16:53:53
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Please, please make this a priority. Does pro 4 have it already? If yes will upgrade quickly. It has been asked many times over a year or two now.
John New - Transport historian/researcher and Stephenson Locomotive Society Publicity Officer. |
Edited by - johnnew on 14/02/2016 16:54:51 |
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Philippe
France
295 Posts |
Posted - 17/02/2016 : 10:56:26
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Hello Mike,
As long as MM4 does not support the SLD format, the "easiest" way for you guys might be :
1) to export the mastermap.MMstyles file to a mastermap.CSV file to see how it is formatted ;
2) then, with your favorite text editor (Notepad ++?), get to the <rule> tags of the GeoServer SLD files, one by one (saved in the ...\OS-VectorMap-District-stylesheets-master\ESRI Shapefile stylesheets\GeoServer stylesheets (SLD)\Full Colour style\ directory) and create (copy needed values & paste to) your own OS_Styles.CSV file ;
Be careful with some tags such as <ogc:filter>, <MinScaleDenominator> and <MaxScaleDenominator> which will have to be handled as a Visibility attribute of the layers (see TidalBoundary_FullColour.sld as an example) ;
3) then import your OS_Styles.CSV file and save it as an MMstyles file ?
Bon courage!
Philippe |
Edited by - Philippe on 17/02/2016 10:57:57 |
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johnnew
United Kingdom
75 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2016 : 19:11:03
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Originally posted by Recycler
The UK OS free OpenMap vector files are offered with style sheet data (.DIC, .LYR and .OTF files) designed for use with ESRI ArcMap.
Is there a conversion procedure so that they can be understood and used by MapMaker, please?
A Q for MapMaker - I note from the OS website Vector MapDistrict is now available for download in GML 3.2. Will MM4 import that including the OS style sheet(s)? Question asked as importing the OS styling has been a problem for me all along with MM as can be seen from several earlier posts.
John New - Transport historian/researcher and Stephenson Locomotive Society Publicity Officer. |
Edited by - johnnew on 05/04/2016 19:11:59 |
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mapmaker
470 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2016 : 15:55:27
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| When Map Maker imports GML files it does not import ESRI style sheets. We may do this one day but we take the view that different people put OS maps to many different uses so that standard style sheets would not be of use to everyone. |
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johnnew
United Kingdom
75 Posts |
Posted - 10/04/2016 : 10:51:56
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Thank you for the response. Unfortunately I found three problems in using MM 3.5:-
1) the fact that the default is style sheets change for every project
2) that fact you can't import an OS vector map directly looking like the raster versions with OS colours etc.
3) Forgetting the live layer save (I see that is fixed in 4, thank you)
I don't think either (1) or (2) will stop me upgrading fairly soon but both are extremely frustrating.
The analogy to me of the OS style issue is like loading a colour photo into Photoshop, but when it imports it is in mono and needs to be re-coloured by the user. When I import a map from the national data supplier I would like it to be ready to run, and looking initially like the paper copy. End result use of the raster versions as base maps instead, but they make massive files with knock on problems.
To draw the Photoshop analogy again, I might want to change a tree's colour in a street scene to bronze to see what it will look like in Autumn, I wouldn't want to have to re-colourize every other artifact in the image too as part of the process.
Possibly I am an odd-ball user but my use is secondary to other tasks, exactly like the bit in the blurb "for people who need to make maps". I use it when I need to create a bespoke map to put into other works be that a PowerPoint AV or an otherwise text based document. Short intensive bursts of use often months apart, with user experience knowledge forgotten in between.
I'm happy to pay for extra functions over and above Gratis (I did for vern 3) as I do use them. For me No (2) above should also be one of the "pay for extras" over and above the Gratis versions and, as other posts not just mine also show, certainly for UK home-market users this is desirable.
John New - Transport historian/researcher and Stephenson Locomotive Society Publicity Officer. |
Edited by - johnnew on 10/04/2016 11:17:58 |
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