Building Plugin

Description

Displays polygon data on the map using a separate height value to draw a building. Vector data is currently gotten through a tomcat servlet that queries data on a postgis database. In the future data might be queried from Mapserver, using Mapserver’s new GML output function.

applet parameters

plugin_type : buildings

plugin_parameters : status,ht_ref_type,servleturl,db table name,query width,display width,max z

optional : num walls,wall prefix url

  • status

o (0,1) layer on or off boolean

  • ht_ref_type

o (0,1) set to 0 to calc height from sea level, and 1 to set height from current terrain level.

  • servleturl

o (string) tomcat servlet uri

  • db table name

o (string) postgis table name that servlet can refer to

  • query width

o (int) extents in meters of db query

  • display width

o (int) extents in meters of display. when display extents are no longer within query width, data will be requeried.

  • max z

o (int) maximun altitude in meters that vector data will be displayed

optional

  • num wall textures

o number of wall textures

  • wallPrefix

o uri prefix to wall png images

pluginAction

Notes