[ka-Map-dev] Scale information moving to the mapfiles?

[Lorenzo Becchi]

Sam, I like the idea too.
Paul is right, we need anyway to maintain backward compatibility.

ciao
Lorenzo


Samuel Hiatt wrote:
> Great!  One of these days I'll try to try to implement it.  I'm not 
> familiar with that area of ka-map, but I want to get familiar with 
> it... I'll let you know when I start working on it.
>
> First I need to write up a small ka-map customization tutorial for the 
> wiki like I promised that I would do. 
>
> Thanks!
>
> Sam
>
>
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> On 7/26/07, *Paul Spencer* <pagameba at gmail.com 
> <mailto:pagameba at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Sam,
>
>     I like the idea (it was probably me that proposed it).  If you are
>     going to do this, I'd like to see it work either way with the scales
>     array in config.php taking precedence over the map file.  Also, we
>     should probably take some care to sort the scales so that they are in
>     the right order (in case they are specified backwards in metadata for
>     instance)
>
>     Cheers
>
>     Paul
>
>     On 25-Jul-07, at 3:06 PM, Samuel Hiatt wrote:
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>     > Hi all...
>     >
>     > I think I read somewhere a while back that someone was planning on
>     > moving the scale configuration information to the mapfiles
>     > metadata?  Does anyone know anything about this?  It seems like a
>     > simple task, I might could do it.  Does everyone agree that the
>     > mapfile is a more appropriate place to put the scales array (ie:
>     > "'scales' => array( 1500000, 1000000, 750000, 500000, 250000);")?
>     >
>     > Sam
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